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Definition of Aquitania
1. Noun. A region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees.
Group relationships: France, French Republic
Generic synonyms: French Region
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aquitania
Literary usage of Aquitania
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Like the rest of Gaul, Aquitania absorbed i large measure of Roman civilisation
which continued to languish the district down to a late period. ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"About the time of Julius Caesar the name Aquitania was given to that part of Gaul
... Although many of the tribes of Aquitania submitted to Julius Caesar, ..."
3. The Deserts of Southern France: An Introduction to the Limestone and Chalk by Sabine Baring-Gould (1894)
""Aquitania," says Michelet, "backed by the Western Pyrenees, which arc still ...
no doubt a Roman of Aquitania, to watch them. This was about AD 600. ..."
4. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"Why should I mention the distress of Aquitania, since there was not in it a town
or village, city or castle, that did not fall by the barbarous rage of the ..."
5. The classical manual by James Skerret Shore Baird (1852)
"In Aquitania Secunda: on the Garonne, Burdigala, Bordeaux (the birth-place of
Ausonius); in the N., Limonum, ..."
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