Gallia Narbonensis

Province of Gallia Narbonensis Provincia Gallia Narbonensis
Province of the Roman Empire
121 BC[1]–5th century
The province of Gallia Narbonensis within the Roman Empire in 125 AD
Capital	Narbo Martius
Historical era	Antiquity
• Established	121 BC[1]
• Visigothic conquest	5th century
Succeeded by Visigothic Kingdom
Today part of	France Italy Monaco

Gallia Narbonensis (Latin for "Gaul of Narbonne", from its chief settlement)^{[n 1]} was a Roman province located in what is now Occitania and Provence, in Southern France. It was also known as Provincia Nostra ("Our Province"), because it was the first Roman province north of the Alps, and as Gallia Transalpina ("Transalpine Gaul"), distinguishing it from Cisalpine Gaul in Northern Italy. It became a Roman province in the late 2nd century BC. Gallia Narbonensis was bordered by the Pyrenees Mountains on the west, the Cévennes to the north, the Alps on the east, and the Gulf of Lion on the south; the province included the majority of the Rhone catchment. The western region of Gallia Narbonensis was known as Septimania. The province was a valuable part of the Roman Empire, owing to the Greek colony and later Roman Civitas of Massalia, its location between the Spanish provinces and Rome, and its financial output.^[2]

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