Gallia Lugdunensis
Gallia Lugdunensis, later simply called Lugdunensis, was one of three Roman provinces, which originated in the division of Gaul by Caesar Augustus; the other two were Gallia Belgica in the north east and Gallia Aquitania in the south-west.
Lugdunensis comprised the center of today's France of Brittany and Normandy, almost the entire catchment area of the Loire and the Seine to the valley of the Rhone, near Lyon, which was the eponymous capital of the province under the name of Lugdunum.
In the administrative reforms of Diocletian ( emperor 284-305 ) was Lugdunensis in the provinces of Lugdunensis I ( Burgundy ), II (Normandy), III (Brittany, Loire) and Senonia (Paris, Orléans ) split and then formed with the former provinces of Belgica, Germania superior, Germania inferior, Sequana (Western Switzerland, Jura, later maxima Sequanorum ) and Alpes Graiae et Poeninae (see Alpes and Alpes Poenina Graiae ) the diocese Galliae.
The western part of Lugdunensis formed by 475 the kingdom of Syagrius and went 486 over to the Franks, the eastern, the heartland of the kingdom of the Burgundians, which fell to the Franks until 532.
Major cities in the province of Lugdunensis 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 )
- Parisiorum Lutetia (Paris)
- Portus Namnetum (Nantes)
- Rotomagus (Rouen )
- Segusiavorum ( Feurs )
- Suindinum (Le Mans)
- Historical territory (France)
- Roman province ( Europe)
- Gaul