Talk:Aquitaine

old talk
Aquitaine is currently one of the regions of France. Possibly, it was also the name of one of the provinces of France. Guyenne was a province. Thus, it is not correct to equate Aquitaine-region and Guyenne, although Aquitaine-province and Guyenne might be, but I am not sure about the latter. - User:Olivier

--Cchipman 19:50, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC) Eleanor of Aquitaine was not childless with Louis, but gave him two daughters. You can see the article on Louis VII, but it states that its Alix and Marie.

Please revert
someone please revert to the version without the legends section

sorry if this is the wrong place but...
has anyone looked into the possibility of using image mapping to make the regional maps interactive? that way, someone could click on a region and it would bring them to the article about that region. it seems like the logical step because many people might not know the name of the region they want to find, just the general location. this would improve these sub-country pages a lot, i think.


 * Something else that would be nice is if we could take maps and "zoom out" from them so we can see where the place is in the world. AThousandYoung 08:48, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

cleanup tag added Nov.13th 2005
This cleanup tag is for the Encyclopedia Britannica text dump added by Pwqn -- it needs substantial work to bring it up to modern standards. POV and language problems. Stbalbach 04:10, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Reverted the Eb1911 text entirely. Stbalbach 04:16, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Economy/Food
I'll fix these up in a while... but if anyone wants to add something, jump in and feel free...

language
what language was used from 1361 until 1453? was it english or normand (french)? Shame On You 07:53, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Used by whom?
 * English definitively not (except by expat Englishmen, particularly troops) because at that time the official language of England was French (Norman French?)
 * Latin was still a major "lingua franca" but in that Low Middle Ages period it was largely replaced by Occitan (Provenzal or maybe Languedocine) all along the Pyrenean region (north and south) as working language. I'm unsure about the use of French by Angevin aristocracy but it seems likely that Occitan was still more widely used as "official".
 * In Labourd, Basque was surely used at least as common language. In Gascony, people obviously spoke Gascon and dialects of it, which is often classified as Occitan but is very different from the other true Occitan dialects and never had the reputation of Provenzal and Languedocine (very simmilar to each other).
 * I don't have time to search for documentation but this picture seems a very likely: Ocitan and maybe some French with Latin as last resort, as "offcial" languages. Gascon and Basque in real life. --Sugaar 12:14, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Duke John I?
In the play-by-post game Medieval Diplomacy II, which, in the beginning, is set in approximately the year 1320, Aquitaine's leader is by default Duke John I. I cannot figure out who this guy is supposed to be. Does anyone know? Or did the game's creator simply make up the name or make a mistake or something? AThousandYoung 08:44, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

BÉARN
I noticed the page states that the city of Pau is in Aquitaine. Correct me if I am wrong but Pau is the capital of the old province of Béarn which is/was never part either of Guyenne or, more importantly, is not even a part of the Région of Aquitaine? James Frankcom 22:44, 27 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Pau is the capital of Béarn, but also precfeture of Pyrénées Atlantique, one of the Aquitaine's départements. Gascogne (Guyenne) and Aquitaine are not exactly the same area. Ginko 09:10, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Economy / Services
I was just thinking that this sentence here may require clarification:

Education, with universities at Pau and Bordeaux, which has over 80,000 students

Is that 80,000 students at Pau university, 80,000 students at Bordeaux university, or 80,000 combined total? It certainly confused me for a while... Thirsty Ferret 19:07, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

in the "See Also" section, provides link to Guyenne that just goes back to same page. -- Rcduggan (talk) 19:59, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Romanization
The statement "Aquitaine was quite thoroughly Romanized in its culture, unlike northern Gaul." was deleted with the summary non-sequitur " Aquitaine wasn't particularly Romanised - hence the survival of Basques". Someone else may want to struggle with this deleter with Attitude. --Wetman (talk) 14:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Not me, at least not right now - but neither statement is particularly accurate. A few other notes: 'akwa is deemed a Proto-World word (for water), so pinning the etymology of any tribe with that as part of its name into any much later linguistic formation (like Latin or Basque) is pointless and really beyond the scope of this article. It should state that the people called themselves Aquitanes (be nice to know how they pronounced it), and who in the whole world knows that a "real Celt" is (especially as opposed to...Gallic Iberians?) Much work to be done here.  There are references, someone interested in the history of Europe or France could have a lot of fun improving this article.--LeValley 04:44, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

2 million Occitan speakers in Aquitaine alone?
That seems very dubious. 108.254.160.23 (talk) 04:44, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

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Etymology
Aquitaine is derived from "Aquae Tarbellicae" (modern: Dax) Bompanigcc (talk) 18:27, 2 March 2023 (UTC)