00:00Narbonensis Gaul, in Latin Gallia Narbonensis, designates in French historiography the Roman province established in the southeast
00:06of Gaul, in a territory stretching from Toulouse to Vienne, passing through Narbonne, Nîmes and Orange, conquered
00:11between 125 and 120 BC.
00:14It is thus named after the Roman colony of Narbo Marcius, Narbonne, founded in 118 BC, which
00:19It becomes the capital.
00:21Rome's conquest of this part of Gaul took place two decades after the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC.
00:27Rome intervened in -125 to protect its ally, the Greek city of Marseille, against attacks from the Salian people.
00:34But this conflict quickly spread to other peoples of Gaul, notably the Allobroges and the Arverni, who were opposed to
00:39Rome and the Aedui, allies of Rome.
00:41The defeat of the Allobroges in -121 brought an end to the conflict.
00:45One consequence of the conquest was to enable a land link between Italy, already Roman, and Hispania.
00:50where Rome was well established, thanks to the construction of the Via Domitia, extended at that time by the road
00:55from the Montguenèvre pass.
00:57A few decades later, in 58 BC, Julius Caesar, governor of Narbonensis and Cisalpine Gaul, intervened in a conflict
01:04in Gaul, which was eventually conquered in -52.
01:07The province of Narbonensis, already Romanized, remained separate from the three Gauls created by Augustus: Lugdunensis, Aquitania, and Belgica, whose
01:15cities are represented each year at the imperial ceremony at the federal sanctuary in Lyon.
01:19Following Diocletian's reforms in 285 BC, however, Narbonensis was integrated into the diocese of Vienne.
01:25chief town, Bordeaux, and the prefecture of the praetorium of Gaul, capital, Trier.
01:31A quintessential Roman province of Gaul, it passed on this name to Provence at the beginning of the Middle Ages.
01:36Then I saw our decision.
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