Definition of Aquitania

1. Noun. A region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees.

Exact synonyms: Aquitaine
Group relationships: France, French Republic
Generic synonyms: French Region

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aquitania

Aquarius the Water Bearer
Aquariuses
Aquaspirillum
Aquifoliaceae
Aquila
Aquila chrysaetos
Aquila degli Abruzzi
Aquila rapax
Aquilegia canadensis
Aquilegia coerulia
Aquilegia scopulorum calcarea
Aquilegia vulgaris
Aquinas
Aquinian
Aquitaine
Aquitania
Aquitanian
Ar
Arab
Arab-Berber
Arab-Israeli War
Arab League
Arab Republic of Egypt
Arab Revolutionary Brigades
Arab Spring
Arab World
Arab chief
Arab street
Arabela

Literary usage of Aquitania

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Like the rest of Gaul, aquitania absorbed i large measure of Roman civilisation which continued to languish the district down to a late period. ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"About the time of Julius Caesar the name aquitania was given to that part of Gaul ... Although many of the tribes of aquitania submitted to Julius Caesar, ..."

3. The Deserts of Southern France: An Introduction to the Limestone and Chalk by Sabine Baring-Gould (1894)
""aquitania," says Michelet, "backed by the Western Pyrenees, which arc still ... no doubt a Roman of aquitania, to watch them. This was about AD 600. ..."

4. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Roger, Matthew Paris (1849)
"Why should I mention the distress of aquitania, since there was not in it a town or village, city or castle, that did not fall by the barbarous rage of the ..."

5. The classical manual by James Skerret Shore Baird (1852)
"In aquitania Secunda: on the Garonne, Burdigala, Bordeaux (the birth-place of Ausonius); in the N., Limonum, ..."

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