Gaul
Toulouse (Roman Tolosa) is a major city of southern Gaul on the Garonne River, renowned as an early episcopal see, site of the martyrdom of its first bishop Saturninus, and a crossroads of Roman, Visigothic, and Frankish Christian worlds.
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Toulouse (Aquitaine) through the eras
From 418 Toulouse served as the capital of the Arian Visigothic Kingdom; after Clovis's Frankish army defeated the Visigoths at the Battle of Vouillé (507), the city passed to Catholic Merovingian rule, while the tomb-basilica of the martyr-bishop Saturninus continued as a pilgrimage anchor throughout.
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Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Toulouse (Aquitaine). Click any to trace the idea across time and place.