Basque highland clans from the Pyrenees driven…

578 CE

Basque highland clans from the Pyrenees driven northward by the Visigoths in 578 settle in Novempopulana (that is, "land of the nine tribes"), which has been under loose Frankish control since 507.

Novempopulana will become known as Vasconia (that is, "land of the Vascones", the Latin word "Vasco" later evolving into the word "Basque").

The word Vasconia will evolve into Wasconia, and then into Gasconia, or Gascony.

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Pau Aquitaine France View →

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Franks View → Goths (East Germanic tribe) View → Breton people View → Visigothic Kingdom of Spain View → Orléans (eventually Burgundy), Frankish Kingdom of View → Soissons (eventually Neustria), Frankish Kingdom of View → Reims and Metz (eventually Austrasia), Frankish Kingdom of View → Basque people View →

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