Septimania

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Septimania is a historical region in modern-day Southern France. It referred to the western part of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis that passed to the control of the Visigoths in 462 CE, when Septimania was ceded to their king, Theodoric II. During the Early Middle Ages, the region was variously known as Gallia Narbonensis, Gallia, or Narbonensis. In modern-day France, the medieval territory of Septimania roughly corresponds to the former administrative region of Languedoc-Roussillon, along with the departments of Aude, Gard, Hérault, Lozère, and Pyrénées-Orientales. Languedoc-Roussillon and the Midi-Pyrénées were merged into the current administrative region of Occitania by the Government of the French Republic in 2016. In the Visigothic Kingdom, a Romano-Germanic independent state that emerged after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, which became centred on Toledo by the end of the reign of Leovigild, Septimania was both an administrative province of...

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