Gallia Narbonensis (fra)

Gallia Narbonensis

Gallia Narbonensis ranks 4,041st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Aegina, Great Neck, New York, and Skokie, Illinois. Memorable people born in Gallia Narbonensis include Tacitus, Frontinus, and Gnaeus Julius Agricola. Memorable people who died in Gallia Narbonensis include John Cassian, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, and Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus. Gallia Narbonensis has been the birth place of many historians, and writers and the death place of many religious figures, and military personnels. Gallia Narbonensis is located in France.

Gallia Narbonensis was a Roman province located in what is now Occitania and Provence, in Southern France. It was also known as Provincia Nostra, because it was the first Roman province north of the Alps, and as Gallia Transalpina, distinguishing it from Cisalpine Gaul in Northern Italy. It became a Roman province in the late 2nd century BC. Gallia Narbonensis was bordered by the Pyrenees Mountains on the west, the Cévennes to the north, the Alps on the east, and the Gulf of Lion on the south; the province included the majority of the Rhone catchment. The western region of Gallia Narbonensis was known as Septimania. The province was a valuable part of the Roman Empire, owing to the Greek colony and later Roman Civitas of Massalia, its location between the Spanish provinces and Rome, and its financial output. Read more on Wikipedia