Guienne

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 452

Guienne, one of the old French provinces, comprehending the present departments of Gironde, Lot, Dordogne, Aveyron, with portions of Tarn-et-Garonne and Lot-et-Garonne. It formed with Gascony (q.v.) what was originally the country of Aquitania (q.v.), of which name Guienne is a corruption.

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