aquitaine

     

Aquitaine (Occitan: Aquitània; Basque: Akitania) (archaic "Guyenne", Guienne; in Occitan: Guiana) is one of the 26 regions of France, in the south-western part of metropolitan France, along the Atlantic Ocean an the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. In the Middle Ages it was a kingdom and later a duchy, with boundaries considerably larger than the modern ones.

Trivia about aquitaine

  • "A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver" is about 12th century queen Eleanor of this duchy
  • Richard the Lion-Heart was duke of this French area that his mother Eleanor had inherited
  • An historical duchy in Southwestern France between Bordeaux & the Pyrenees
  • During the Hundred Years War, France got back this duchy that had, via Eleanor, gone to England

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