Aquitaine, archaically known as Guyenne, is a region of southwestern France, centered at Bordeaux. The region was named for the Aquitani tribe of Gaul, and it has had its own unique history; heavily influenced by the Iberian Peninsula to the south, Aquitaine saw Visigoth rule after the fall of the Roman Empire before the Franks conquered Aquitaine at the Battle of Campus Vogladensis in 511. The Kingdom of England was united with Aquitaine when Eleanor of Aquitaine married Henry II of England, and England gained Aquitaine and other regions of France through the marriage. Its capital would fall to the Kingdom of France in 1451, and it has been a part of France ever since then.
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Location of Aquitaine
Population in 1861