Novempopulana

Novempopulana

Novempopulana ( Latin for "land of the nine peoples") was one of the provinces formed by Emperor Diocletian and was also called Aquitania Tertia as part of the former province of Gallia Aquitania . The province formed the extreme southwest of Gaul and stretched between the Garonne and the Pyrenees . Neighboring provinces were Aquitania secunda in the north, Gallia Narbonensis in the east and Hispania Tarraconensis in the south.

The nine peoples of the Novempopulana were:

• the Tarbelli around Aquae Tarbellicae ( Dax , Landes )
• the Auscii to Eliumberrum ( Auch , Gers )
• the Bigerriones around Turba ( Tarbes , Bigorre )
• the Convenae around Lugdunum ( Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges )
• the Consorani ( Saint-Lizier , Couserans )
• the Elusates around Elusa ( Eauze , Bas- Armagnac )
• the Lactorates around Lactora ( Lectoure , Lomagne )
• the vasates around cossium ( bazas )
• the Boii (Lamothe near Le Teich , Pays de Buch )

After the end of the Roman Empire, the province of Novempopulana became part of Gascony .

literature

• Klaus-Peter Johne (ed.): The time of the soldier emperors. Volume I, Crisis and Transformation of the Roman Empire, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004529-0 .
• Steffen Diefenbach, Gernot Michael Müller (ed.): Gaul in late antiquity and early Middle Ages. Cultural history of a region, Walter De Gruyter GmbH, Berlin / Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-026005-2 .