Editing Gascony (section)

===Novempopulana===
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In 297, as Emperor [[Diocletian]] reformed the administrative structures of the Roman Empire, Aquitania was split into three provinces. 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]]. The territory of Novempopulania corresponded mostly to that of modern Gascony.

The Aquitania Novempopulana or [[Novempopulania]] suffered like the rest of the [[Western Roman Empire]] from the invasions of [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] tribes, most notably the [[Vandals]] in 407–409. In 416–418, Novempopulania was delivered to the [[Visigoths]] as their federate settlement lands and became part of the Visigoth kingdom of [[Toulouse]], while other than the region of the Garonne river their actual grip on the area may have been rather loose.

The Visigoths were defeated by the [[Frankish Empire|Frank]]s in 507, and fled into Spain and [[Septimania]]. Novempopulania then became part of the [[Frankish Kingdom]] like the rest of southern France. However, Novempopulania was far away from the home base of the Franks in northern France, and was only very loosely controlled by the Franks. During all the troubled and historically obscure period, starting from early 5th-century accounts, the [[bagaudae]] are often cited, social uprisings against tax exaction and feudalization, largely associated to Vasconic unrest.