People
Lugdunenses
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Lugdunenses, the people of Lugdunensis, is written across a wide stretch of the map, and the plural is worth noticing: the Tabula names the inhabitants rather than the province itself. That province took its name from Lugdunum, modern Lyon, where the imperial governor had his seat. Augustus created it between 27 and 13 BC, when he divided long-haired Gaul into three. It took in the peoples of Armorica and the lands between the Loire and the Seine, and lost its access to the Rhine. The geographer Ptolemy called it Celtic Lugdunensis. Under Diocletian it was split into four provinces, governed from Lyon, Rouen, Tours and Sens.