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Agenais (France)


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    • e-fr---
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    • Agenois (France)
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    • Descriptor

        Counties
    • Associated Locale

        France
    • Associated Locale

        Aquitania Secunda (Roman province)
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      • found: Its Le livre d'Agenais, 1956.
      • found: Taylor, C. Heresy in medieval France, 2005:t.p. (the Agenais) p. 47 (as a medieval county and diocese, corresponded very closely to modern département of Lot-et-Garonne, except that until creation of diocese of Condom in 1317, it incorporated the Condomois as well; extended from Périgord, to its north, to just south of abbey of Condom, and from l'Avance to Auvillar and Fumel, which marked its border with Quercy)
      • found: Fages, Brieuc. Le Lot-et-Garonne, 1995:p. 4 (le département de Lot-et-Garonne; situated at the confluence of two large rivers of the South-West) p. 33 (the Agenais, the historical heart of the current department of Lot-et-Garonne; this territory took its name from Agen (ancient Aginnum, capital city of the Nitiobroges); the boundaries of Agenais have never been very stable through history; sometimes extended over both banks of the Garonne, forming the southern limit of the province of Aquitaine Seconde in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, or the northern limit of Gascony in the Middle Ages; sometimes it lost its lands beyond the Garonne, perhaps in the 8th century and from 1317 to the Revolution, with the existence of the diocese of Condom)
      • found: Wikipedia, 22 April 2016(Agenais, or Agenois, was an ancient region that became a county of France; south of Périgord; in ancient Gaul, the region was the country of the Nitiobroges, with Aginnum (modern Agen) for their capital; from about 886, Agenais became an hereditary county in the part of the country now called Gascony; in 1561, Guyenne was made a province, including Agenais; thenceforth Agenais was no more than an administrative term; at the end of the Ancien Régime, it formed part of the Gouvernement of Guienne, and at the Revolution it was incorporated within the département of Lot-et-Garonne, of which it constitutes nearly the whole)
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      • [Old catalog heading: Agenais, France]
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      • 1981-08-05: new
      • 2017-06-04: revised
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