Gallia Lugdunensis
Gallia Lugdunensis was a province of the Roman Empire in what is now the modern country of France, part of the Celtic nation of Gaul. It is named after its capital Lugdunum (today's Lyon), possibly Roman Europe's major city west of Italy, and a major imperial mint. Outside Lugdunnum was the Condate Altar, where representatives of the Three Gauls met to celebrate the cult of Rome and Augustus. Its original extent was from the rivers Seine and Marne in the north-east, which formed the boundary with Gallia Belgica, to the river Garonne in the south-west, which formed the border with Gallia Aquitania. Under Augustus, Gallia Lugdunensis was reduced in size. The portion between the river Loire and the Garonne was given to Gallia Aquitania, and central-eastern portions were given to the new province of Germania Superior. The map shows the extent after these reductions. It was an imperial province, deemed important enough to be governed by an imperial legate. Since Diocletian's Tetrarchy (296), it was the major province of a diocese confusingly called Galliae ('the Gaul [province]s'), to which further only the Helvetic, Belgian (both also Celtic) and German provinces belonged; with the dioceses of Viennensis (the southern provinces of Gaul), Britanniae (also Celtic) and Hispaniae (the whole Celtiberian peninsula) this formed the praetorian prefecture also called Galliae, subordinate to the western emperor.
Fiction
The fictional unconquered village from the French comic book Asterix the Gaul is located here, on an Aremorican peninsula (modern Bretagne).
See also
| Late Roman Provinces | |||
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| Western Empire (395 - 476 AD) | |||
| Diocese of Gaul: Gallia Lugdunensis I | Gallia Lugdunensis II | Gallia Lugdunensis III | Gallia Lugdunensis IV | Gallia Belgica I | Gallia Belgica II | Germania I | Germania II | Alpes
Poeninae et Graiae | Maxima Sequanorum Diocese of Viennensis (later Septem Provinciae): Viennensis | Alpes Maritimae | Aquitanica I | Aquitanica II | Novempopulana | Narbonensis I | Narbonensis II Diocese of Hispania: Baetica | Baleares | Carthaginensis | Tarraconensis | Gallaecia | Lusitania | Mauretania Tingitana Diocese of Britain: Maxima Caesariensis | Valentia (369 AD) | Britannia I | Britannia II | Flavia Caesariensis |
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| Diocese of Italia suburbicaria:
Campania | Tuscania et Umbria | Picenum Suburbicarium | Apulia et Calabria | Bruttia et Lucania | Samnium | Valeria | Corsica | Sicilia |
Sardinia Diocese of Italia annonaria: Venetia et Istria | Aemilia | Liguria | Flaminia et Picenum Annonarium | Alpes Cottiae | Raetia I | Raetia II Diocese of Africa1: Africa proconsularis (or Zeugitana) | Byzacena | Mauretania Sitifensis | Mauretania Caesariensis | Numidia | Tripolitania Diocese of Pannonia2: Dalmatia | Noricum mediterraneum | Noricum ripensis | Pannonia I | Pannonia II | Savia | Valeria ripensis |
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| Eastern Empire (395 - ca. 640 AD) | |||
| Diocese of Dacia: Dacia mediterranea | Moesia I | Praevalitana | Dardania | Dacia
ripensis Diocese of Macedonia: Macedonia I | Macedonia Salutaris (or Macedonia II) | Thessalia | Epirus vetus | Epirus nova | Achaea | Creta |
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| Diocese of Thrace: Europa | Thracia | Haemimontus | Rhodope | Moesia II | Scythia Diocese of Asia*: Asia | Hellespontus | Pamphylia | Caria | Lydia | Lycia | Lycaonia | Pisidia | Phrygia Pacatiana | Phrygia Salutaria | Insulae Diocese of Pontus*: Bithynia | Galatia I3 | Galatia Salutaris (or Galatia II)3 | Paphlagonia | Honorias (merged to Paphlagonia in 535 AD) | Cappadocia I | Cappadocia II | Helenopontus* | Pontus Polemoniacus* | Armenia I* | Armenia II* | Armenia Maior* | Armenian Satrapies* | Armenia III (536 AD) | Armenia IV (536 AD) Diocese of the East: Cilicia I | Cilicia II | Isauria | Cyprus | Syria I | Syria Salutaris (or Syria II) | Euphratensis | Osroene | Mesopotamia | Phoenice | Phoenice Libanensis | Palestina I | Palestina II | Palestina Salutaris (or Palestina III) | Arabia | Theodorias (530s AD) Diocese of Egypt: Ægyptus I | Ægyptus II | Augustamnica I | Augustamnica II | Arcadia Ægypti | Thebais Superior | Thebais Inferior | Libya Superior | Libya Inferior |
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Other provinces
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Taurica | Lazica (532/562 AD) | Spania (552 AD) | ||
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Notes
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Provincial administration reformed by Diocletian, ca. 293
AD. Praetorian Prefectures established by Constantine I in 318 AD. Empire permanently partitioned in 395 AD.
Exarchate of Ravenna and Exarchate of
Africa established after 584 AD. Provinces replaced by Theme system, ca. 640 AD. * boundaries affected/abolished/renamed by Justinian's reorganization in 534-536 AD 1 re-established after reconquest by the Eastern Empire in 534 AD, as the separate praetorian prefecture of Africa 2 after 379 AD also called Diocese of Illyricum 3 joined into one proconsular province in 536 AD |
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| Roman Imperial Provinces (AD 120) | |
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| Achaea | Ægyptus | Africa | Alpes Cottiae | Alpes Maritimae | Alpes Poenninae | Arabia Petraea | Armenia Inferior | Asia | Assyria | Bithynia | Britannia | Cappadocia | Cilicia | Commagene | Corduene | Corsica et Sardinia | Creta et Cyrenaica | Cyprus | Dacia | Dalmatia | Epirus | Galatia | Gallia Aquitania | Gallia Belgica | Gallia Lugdunensis | Gallia Narbonensis | Germania Inferior | Germania Superior | Hispania Baetica | Hispania Lusitania | Hispania Tarraconensis | Italia | Iudaea | Iturea | Lycaonia | Lycia | Macedonia | Mauretania Caesariensis | Mauretania Tingitana | Moesia | Noricum | Numidia | Osroene | Pannonia | Pamphylia | Pisidia | Pontus | Raetia | Sicilia | Sophene | Syria | Taurica | Thracia |  |
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