Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Geography and subdivisions

Additional data: Guyenne, Gascony and Aquitaine

The chronicled duchy of Aquitaine does not compare to the French district now known as Aquitaine; it was further north, including parts of what are presently the areas of Pays de la Loire, Center, Limousin, Poitou-Charentes and Auvergne. Over the span of its presence, the duchy of Aquitaine came to fuse the duchy of Vasconia and the region of Toulouse (containing parts of what are currently the areas of Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon). Toulouse again got to be disconnected and went to the kingdom of France by 1271. Vasconia (Gascogne) then again remained an indispensable piece of the duchy of Aquitaine and speaks to the heft of the district now known as Aquitaine.

The province of Aquitaine as it remained in the High Middle Ages, then, was bordering the Pyrenees to the south (Navarre, Aragon and Barcelona, previously the Marcha Hispanica) and the region of Toulouse and the kingdom of Burgundy (Arelat to the east. To the north, it verged on Bretagne, Anjou, Blois and Bourbonnais, all of which had gone to the kingdom of France by the thirteenth century.

Aquitania legitimate

Province of Poitou

Province of La Marche

Province of Angoulême

Province of Périgord

Province of Auvergne (went to the illustrious area in 1271)

Province of Velay

Province of Saintonge

Lordship of Déols

Lordship of Issoudun

Viscounty of Limousin

Duchy of Gascogne (Gascony), particular union with Aquitaine since the seventh century (Felix of Aquitaine), semi free amid the ninth and tenth hundreds of years, re-vanquished into Angevine Aquitaine in 1053.

Province of Agenais

Province of Toulouse (semi free from 778, returned to the illustrious area in 1271)

Province of Quercy

Province of Rouergue

Province of Rodez

Province of Gevaudan

Viscounty of Albi

Marquisat of G

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