Region
Aquitania
Aquitaine (Barrington)
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Aquitania survives on the Tabula only as its last letters, ITANIA, because its opening lay on the lost part of the map, where the missing letters were presumably A, Q and V. The name belongs to the province of south-western Gaul, today Aquitaine in France. In 27 BC Augustus joined fourteen Celtic tribes between the Garonne and the Loire to the Aquitani proper, and the governor sat first at Saintes, later at Bordeaux. In the fourth century the province was split into three, and it was largely spared invasions until the Visigoths arrived in the fifth century.