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