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aqua- | ˈakwə |
combining form
relating to water: aquaculture.
• relating to water sports or aquatic entertainment: aquacade.
origin
from Latin aqua ‘water’.
aqua 1 | ˈäkwə, ˈakwə |
noun
a light bluish-green color; aquamarine: houses of yellow and aqua | [as modifier] : aqua blue.
origin
1930s: abbreviation of aquamarine.
aqua 2 | ˈäkwə, ˈakwə |
noun
(especially in pharmaceutical and commercial use) water.
origin
Latin.
Aquitaine | ˈakwəˌtān |
a region and former province of southwestern France, on the Bay of Biscay, centered on Bordeaux. It became an English possession by the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry II in 1152, and remained so until 1453.
Aquitaine
Former region of France
Aquitaine
Overview
Aquitaine (UK:,US:; French:[akitɛn]; Occitan: Aquitània[akiˈtanjɔ]; Basque: Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Aguiéne), archaic Guyenne or Guienne (Occitan: Guiana), is a historical region of Southwestern France and a former administrative region. Since 1 January 2016 it has been part of the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is situated in the southwest corner of metropolitan France, along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain; for most of its written history Bordeaux has been a vital port and administrative centre. It is composed of the five departments of Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes and Gironde. Gallia Aquitania was established by the Romans in ancient times and in the Middle Ages, Aquitaine was a kingdom and a duchy, whose boundaries fluctuated considerably.
The Aquitani were a tribe that lived in the region between the Pyrenees, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Garonne, in present-day southwestern France[1] in the 1st century BC. The Romans dubbed this region Gallia Aquitania. Classical authors such as Julius Caesar and Strabo clearly distinguish the Aquitani from the other peoples of Gaul, and note their similarity to others in the Iberian Peninsula.
Their old language, the Aquitanian language, was a precursor of the Basque language[2] and the substrate for the Gascon language (one of the Romance languages) spoken in Gascony. Between the 1st century and the 13th century, the Aquitani gradually adopted the Gascon language while part of the Roman Empire, then the Duchy of Gascony and the Duchy of Aquitaine.
History
At the time of the Roman conquest, Julius Caesar, who defeated them in his campaign in Gaul, describes them as making up a distinct part of Gaul:
All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third. All these differ from each other in language, customs and laws. The river Garonne separates the Gauls from the Aquitani[3]
Despite apparent cultural and linguistic connections to (Vascones), the region of Aquitania extended only to the Pyrenees according to Caesar:
Aquitania extends from the river Garonne to the Pyrenaean mountains and to that part of the ocean which is near Hispania: it looks between the setting of the sun, and the north star.[4]
Relation to Basque people and language
Late Romano-Aquitanian funerary slabs and altars contain what seem to be the names of deities or people similar to certain names in modern Basque,