Lugdunensis

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Location of the province of Gallia Lugdunensis in the Roman Empire, around 120 AD.
Roman provinces under Trajan (117 AD)

Gallia Lugdunensis , later just called Lugdunensis , was one of the three Roman provinces that emerged when Gaul was divided by Emperor Augustus ; the other two were Gallia Belgica in the northeast and Gallia Aquitania in the southwest.

Lugdunensis encompassed the center of what is now France from Brittany and Normandy , almost the entire catchment area from Loire and Seine to the Rhone valley near Lyon , which, under the name Lugdunum, was the eponymous capital of the province.

During the administrative reform of Diocletian (Emperor 284-305), Lugdunensis was divided into the provinces Lugdunensis I ( Burgundy ), II (Normandy), III (Brittany, Loire) and Senonia ( Paris , Orléans ) and then formed with the previous provinces of Belgica, Germania superior , Germania inferior , Sequana (western Switzerland , Jura , later Maxima Sequanorum) and Alpes Graiae et Poeninae (see Alpes Poenina and Alpes Graiae ) make up the diocese of Galliae .

The western part of Lugdunensis formed the empire of Syagrius around 475 and passed to the Franks in 486 , the eastern part the core of the empire of the Burgundians , which fell to the Franks only from 532 onwards.

The main cities in Lugdunensis Province were: