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  • Iberians of Gaul, alias Aquitanians, and the Kymrians or Belgians from the Gauls, to whom the name of Celts is confined.

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 1830

  • The Iberians, whom Roman writers call Aquitanians, dwelt at the foot of the Pyrenees, in the territory comprised between the mountains, the

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 1830

  • "Aquitanians," "Provencaux," -- Roman Provincials, as they proudly called themselves, speaking the Langue d'Oc, and looking down on the northerners who spoke the Langue d'Oil as barbarians, they were in those days guilty of the capital crime of being foreigners; and as foreigners they were exterminated.

    Prose Idylls, New and Old Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Let us apply to the human race, dear brethren, what is here said of the vintages of Portugal and Gascony, and we shall have no difficulty in perceiving how many clarets aspire to be ports in their way; how most men and women of our acquaintance, how we ourselves, are Aquitanians giving ourselves Lusitanian airs; how we wish to have credit for being stronger, braver, more beautiful, more worthy than we really are.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • The council was held on the banks of the river the Aquitanians call the Aturis.

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • Rouen, to cover the western approach to Paris, with strict orders not to fight; the Aquitanians were more than half French at heart.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • He allied himself with Henry of Trastamare, listened to the grievances of the Aquitanians, summoned the Black Prince to appear and answer the complaints.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • Gauls, the Aquitanians, and the Britons -- as Sulpicius Severus had already mentioned, the three provinces were called Gallise, or the

    Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town William Fleming

  • The Gauls, Aquitanians, and Britons, all possessing, as Csesar testifies, separate governments and different nationalities, regarded one another as distinct races.

    Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town William Fleming

  • In his very opening chapter of the Bellum Gallicum Caesar tells us that all Gaul was in his day divided into three parts, inhabited respectively by the Aquitanians, the Celts, and the Belgians; and of the latter he says, "Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae," "Of all these the Belgians are the bravest."

    Belgium and the Belgians 1915

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