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Aquitaine (UK: / ˌ æ k w ɪ ˈ t eɪ n /, US: / ˈ æ k w ɪ t eɪ n /; French: ⓘ; Occitan: Aquitània [akiˈtanjɔ]; Basque: Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Aguiéne), archaic Guyenne or Guienne (Occitan: Guiana), is a historical region of Southwestern France and a former administrative region.
The Duchy of Aquitaine (Occitan: Ducat d'Aquitània, IPA: [dyˈkad dakiˈtaɲɔ]; French: Duché d'Aquitaine, IPA: [dyʃe dakitɛn]) was a historical fiefdom located in the western, central and southern areas of present-day France, south of the river Loire.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine (French pronunciation: [nuvɛl akitɛn] ⓘ) [3] is the largest administrative region in France by area, spanning the west and southwest of Metropolitan France. The region was created in 2014 by the merging of Aquitaine , Limousin , and Poitou-Charentes in a territorial reform.
The Landes forest (pronounced; La forêt des Landes in French) in the Landes de Gascogne (las Lanas de Gasconha in the Gascon language), in the historic Gascony natural region of southwestern France now known as Aquitaine, is the largest man-made woodland in Western Europe.
As Duke of Aquitaine, Edward was a vassal to the French king. From 1152, the Duchy of Aquitaine was held by the Plantagenets, who also ruled England as independent monarchs and held other territories in France by separate inheritance (see Plantagenet Empire). The Plantagenets were often more powerful than the kings of France, and their ...
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km 2 Pyrénées-Atlantiques ( French pronunciation: [pi.ʁe.nez‿at.lɑ̃.tik] ⓘ ; Gascon Occitan : Pirenèus Atlantics ; Basque : Pirinio Atlantikoak ) is a department located in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the southwest corner of ...
Statue of Evariste Poitevin, a poet who wrote in Poitevin–Saintongeais. Poitevin–Saintongeais (French: poitevin–saintongeais, pronounced [pwatvɛ̃ sɛ̃tɔ̃ʒɛ]; Poitevin–Saintongeais: poetevin-séntunjhaes; [3] also called Parlanjhe, Aguiain or Aguiainais in French) is a language spoken in the regions of the Pays de la Loire and Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km 2 Landes ( French pronunciation: [lɑ̃d] ⓘ ; Gascon and Occitan : Lanas [ˈlanəs] ; Basque : Landak ) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region , Southwestern France , with a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean to the west.