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.
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Gallia Lugdunensis, später nur noch Lugdunensis genannt, war eine der drei
römischen Provinzen, die bei der Aufteilung
Galliens durch Kaiser
Augustus entstanden; die beiden anderen waren
Gallia Belgica im Nordosten und
Gallia Aquitania im Südwesten.Lugdunensis umfasste die Mitte des heutigen
Frankreich von der
Bretagne und der
Normandie, fast den gesamten Einzugsbereich von
Loire und
Seine bis ins Tal der
Rhône bei
Lyon, das unter dem Namen
Lugdunum die namengebende Hauptstadt der Provinz war.Bei der Verwaltungsreform
Diokletians (Kaiser 284-305) wurde Lugdunensis in die Provinzen Lugdunensis I (
Burgund), II (Normandie), III (Bretagne, Loire) und Senonia (
Paris,
Orléans) aufgeteilt und bildete dann mit den bisherigen Provinzen Belgica,
Germania Superior,
Germania Inferior, Sequana (West
schweiz,
Jura, später Maxima Sequanorum) und Alpes Graiae et Poeninae (siehe
Alpes Poenina und
Alpes Graiae) die Diözese Galliae.
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