Lugdunensis
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:
- Andemantunnum ( Langres )
- Augustobona ( Troyes )
- Augustodunum ( Autun )
- Augustodurum ( Bayeux )
- Cabillonum ( Chalon-sur-Saône )
- Caesarodunum ( Tours )
- Cenabum Aureliani ( Orléans )
- Condate ( Rennes )
- Gesocribate ( Brest )
- Iuliomagus ( Angers )
- Lugdunum ( Lyon )
- Lutetia Parisiorum ( Paris )
- Portus Namnetum ( Nantes )
- Rotomagus ( Rouen )
- Segusiavorum ( Feurs )
- Suindinum ( Le Mans )