In the fourth century, Aquitania was divided in three, for administration ; the region that became Bigorre was part of the southernmost section, Aquitania tertia or Novempopulana.

Later when Aquitania was split, Couserans became part of the province of Novempopulana, like the rest of Gascony.

This edict relaxed the administrative bonds that connected all the Seven Provinces ( The Maritime Alps, Narbonensis Prima, Narbonensis Secunda, Novempopulania, Aquitania Prima, Aquitania Secunda and Viennensis ) with the central government.

In 392, the Roman imperial provinces were restructured and Aquitania Prima, Aquitania Secunda and Aquitania Tertia ( or Novempopulania ) were established in south-western Gaul.

The territory south of the Garonne River, corresponding to the original Aquitania, was made a province called Novempopulania ( that is, " land of the nine tribes "), while the part of Gallia Aquitania north of the Garonne became the province of Aquitanica I and the province of Aquitanica II.

At the same time, Aquitania was divided into Aquitania Prima, Aquitania Secunda and Aquitania Tertia or Novempopulania (" land of the nine peoples "), the latter tracing back to the boundaries set up by Caesar for the original Aquitania, who had kept some kind of separate sense of identity ( Verus ' mision to Rome aimed at demanding a separate province ).

Cunard Line's Mauretania and Aquitania were considered the finest liners of their time, while the superliners like Normandie and Queen Mary became symbols of national pride and important part of western civilization with influences in design, technology, popular culture and standards of international travel.

While the usage " Late Antiquity " suggests that the social and cultural priorities of Classical Antiquity endured throughout Europe into the Middle Ages, the usage of " Early Middle Ages " or " Early Byzantine " emphasizes a break with the classical past, and the term " Migrations Period " tends to de-emphasize the disruptions in the former Western Roman Empire caused by the creation of Germanic kingdoms within her borders beginning with the foedus with the Goths in Aquitania in 418.

Transported on four troopships — the Queen Mary, Ile de France, Nieuw Amsterdam and Aquitania — the division arrived at Fremantle in Western Australia on 18 February whereupon all members of the division were granted three weeks leave.

Roman ethnography divides Gaul into five parts, Gallia Cisalpina, Gallia Narbonensis, Gallia Aquitania, Gallia Celtica ( largely corresponding to the later province Gallia Lugdunensis ) and Gallia Belgica.

Gallo-Roman culture, the Romanized culture of Gaul under the rule of the Roman Empire, persisted particularly in the areas of Gallia Narbonensis that developed into Occitania, Gallia Cisalpina and to a lesser degree, Aquitania.

Under Augustus ' Roman rule, since 27 BC the province of Aquitania was further stretched to the north to the River Loire, thus including proper Gaul tribes along with old Aquitani south of the Garonne ( cf.

Five Roman roads radiated from Tours, which lay on the main thoroughfare between the Frankish north and Aquitania, with Spain beyond.

Gaius Iulius Vindex, of a noble Gaulish family of Aquitania given senatorial status under Claudius, was a Roman governor in the province of Gallia Lugdunensis.

This extensive ensemble of Roman constructions suggests Poitiers was a town of first importance, possibly even the capital of the Roman province of Gallia Aquitania during the 2nd century.

The Breviary had the effect of preserving the traditions of Roman law in Aquitania and Gallia Narbonensis, which became both Provence and Septimania, thus reinforcing their sense of enduring continuity, broken in the Frankish north.

In the 50s BC, Aquitania was conquered by lieutenants of Julius Caesar and became part of the Roman Empire.

In 297, as Emperor Diocletian reformed the administrative structures of the Roman Empire, Aquitania was split into three provinces.

The position was strategically important since it stood at the cross roads of two Roman roads, the Via Aquitania and the Via Domitia, as well as by the sea and near the mouth of the River Aude.

Abundantia occurs in the context of Mithraic iconography on a vase from Lezoux, in the Roman province of Gallia Aquitania, which presents the most complete depiction of the act of bull-slaying that was central to the religion.

Roman Emperor Claudius Gothicus re-established Roman authority in Gallia Narbonensis and parts of Gallia Aquitania, and there is some evidence that the provinces of Hispania, which did not recognize the subsequent Gallic Emperors, may have re-aligned with Rome.

Tetricus fought off Germanic barbarians who had begun ravaging Gaul after the death of Victorinus, and was able to re-take Gallia Aquitania and western Gallia Narbonensis while Roman Emperor Aurelian was engaging Queen Zenobia's Palmyrene Empire in the east.

As a successor state for the Visigothic Kingdom ( 418 – 721 ), Aquitania ( Aquitaine ) and Languedoc ( Toulouse ) inherited the Visigothic Law and Roman Law which had combined to allow women more rights than their contemporaries would enjoy until the 20th century.

* Monographs by L. Wiese ( Berlin, 1829 ), J. M. Valeton ( Groningen, 1874 ), L. Fontaine ( Versailles, 1878 ); H. Schulz, De MV aetate ( 1886 ); " Messalla in Aquitania " by J. P. Postgate in Classical Review, March 1903 ; WY Sellar, Roman Poets of the Augustan Age.

As a successor state for the Visigothic Kingdom and Kingdom of Aquitaine, Tolouse, along with Aquitania and Languedoc ( but not Gascony ), inherited the Visigothic Law and Roman Law which had combined to allow women more rights than their contemporaries would enjoy until the 20th century.

* Gallia Aquitania, a province of the Roman Empire

The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian ( ruled 117-38 AD ), showing, in southwestern Gaul, the imperial province of Gallia Aquitania ( Aquitaine, Fr.

Gallia Aquitania (; also Aquitaine, Aquitaine Gaul ) was a province of the Roman Empire, bordered by the provinces of Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Narbonensis, and Hispania Tarraconensis.

In an attempt to save the Empire, Diocletian reorganized the provinces in 293, with the establishment of the Diocesis Viennensis in the south of Gaul, comprising the former Gallia Aquitania and Gallia Narbonensis.

The Visigothic kings of Toulouse, officially one of the foederati ( federated allies ) of the Roman Empire of the West and limited to Aquitania and Toulouse, soon started to encroach on neighboring territories.

In 794 / 5 Ermengarde married Louis the Pious, king of Aquitania, king of Franks, king of Italy, ruler of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Domain of Soissons ( Purple ), was a remainder of the Roman Empire within Gaul surrounded by newly established Germanic kingdoms ( Blue: Early Francia ; Red Alamannia ; Green Burgundia ; Yellow Visigothic Kingdom | Visigothic Aquitania ) and a Celtic region ( Orange ).

* 1914 – The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45, 647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

Its original extent was from the rivers Seine and Marne in the north-east, which formed the boundary with Gallia Belgica, to the river Garonne in the south-west, which formed the border with Gallia Aquitania.

In 427, Aëtius arrived in southern Gaul with an army of roughly 40, 000 to find Arelate, an important city in Septimania near the mouth of the Rhone, under siege from the Visigoths led by their king Theodoric I. Aëtius defeated Theodoric, lifted the Siege of Arelate, and drove the Visigoths back to their holdings in Aquitania.

The Romans called this territory Aquitania, either from the Latin word aqua ( meaning " water "), in reference to the many rivers flowing from the Pyrenees through the area, or from the name of the Aquitanian Ausci tribe ( whose name seems related to the Basque root eusk-meaning " Basque "), in which case Aquitania would mean " land of the Ausci ".

Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Belgica, and Aquitania, literally meaning ‘ long-haired ’, as opposed to Gallia Bracata ‘ trousered ’, a term derived from bracae (‘ breeches ’, the native costume of the northern ‘ barbarians ’) for Gallia Narbonensis.

The main body of the Fifteenth Army sailed from New York aboard the Aquitania on 15 November 1944 and dropped anchor in the Firth of Clyde off Gourock, Scotland on 22 November.

In 960, Armagnac was separated from Fezensac as a separate county, under Bernard le Louche, Géraud Trancaléon and Bernard II, who reunited under his control all of Gascony ( 1040 – 1052 ); in 1052 Gascony became part of " Aquitania ", by personal union of duke William VIII.

Aquitania from Southampton, England, to the Port of New York on the March 11 to March 17 crossing.

Caesar established his camp in the plain of Tolosa in 52 BC, and from there he conquered the western regions of Aquitania.

It is unknown who commissioned the Via Aquitania, but it is likely that Domitius Ahenobarbus built it in order to easily exact tributes from the newly conquered tribes.

Charlemagne built himself a royal court at " Franconovurd ", the " ford of the Franks ", and in the summer of 794 held a church council there, convened by the grace of God, authority of the pope, and command of Charlemagne ( canon 1 ), and attended by the bishops of the Frankish kingdom, Italy and the province of Aquitania, and even by ecclesiastics from England.

GMA hired two talents from ace talent manager, Douglas Quijano, Wendell Ramos and Antonio Aquitania who is one of the first casts of Bubble Gang with Alcasid and Michael V. on their early days.

The Roman navy was also sent to the Cantabrian coast from Gallia Aquitania.