title: Notitia Galliarum
text: # Notitia Galliarum
  
  The Notitia Galliarum (or Notitia provinciarum et civitatum Galliae) is a Roman register of cities dating to the 4th–6th centuries AD. The Latin register is divided into two headings. Ten provinces are listed under the diocese of Gaul and seven under the diocese of the Seven Provinces. For each province the capital city is given and then its other cities (civitates). They are given their ethnic names, i.e., "city of [people]". A total of 115 cities are listed along with six or seven castra (forts) and one portus (harbour).
  
  The original list was probably drawn up during the reign of Magnus Maximus (383–388). Its rubric states that it was made on the order of the bishops, but this was probably added later when the list was updated. The civitates of the Notitia parallel the dioceses of the Roman church, but for the 6th rather than the 4th century. It was probably at that time that the castra and portus, which had acquired bishops, were added, along with the rubric. The bishops' purpose was to prevent disputes over metropolitan authority, "lest antiquity be overturned by any eventuality".
  
  The Notitia remained an important reference point throughout the Middle Ages and is preserved in over 100 manuscripts, but often interpolated.
  
  ## Cities listed
  
  List of Roman provinces with cities (by modern name), taken from Harries 1978.
  
  * Lugdunensis Prima
  
      Lyon
      Autun
      Langres
      Chalon-sur-Saone
      Mâcon
  * Lugdunensis Secunda
  
      Rouen
      Bayeux
      Avranches
      Évreux
      Sées
      Lisieux
      Coutances
  * Lugdunensis Tertia
  
      Tours
      Le Mans
      Rennes
      Angers
      Nantes
      Corseul
      Vannes
      Carhaix
      Jublains
  * Lugdunensis Senonia
  
      Sens
      Chartres
      Auxerre
      Troyes
      Orléans
      Paris
      Meaux
  * Belgica Prima
  
      Trier
      Metz
      Toul
      Verdun
  * Belgica Secunda
  
      Reims
      Soissons
      Châlons
      Vermand
      Arras
      Cambrai
      Tournai
      Senlis
      Beauvais
      Amiens
      Thérouanne
      Boulogne
  * Germania Prima
  
      Mainz
      Strasbourg
      Speyer
      Worms
  * Germania Secunda
  
      Cologne
      Tongeren
  * Maxima Sequanorum
  
      Besançon
      Nyon
      Avenches
      Basel
      Windisch
      Yverdon
      Horbourg-Wihr
      Augst
      Port-sur-Saône
  * Alpes Graiae et Poeninae
  
      Moûtiers
      Martigny
  * Septem Provinciae
  
      Vienne
      Geneva
      Grenoble
      Alba-la-Romaine
      Die
      Valence
      Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux
      Vaison
      Orange
      Cavaillon
      Avignon
      Arles
      Marseille
      Carpentras
  * Aquitanica Prima
  
      Bourges
      Clermont-Ferrand
      Rodez
      Albi
      Cahors
      Limoges
      Javols
      Saint-Paulien
  * Aquitanica Secunda
  
      Bordeaux
      Agen
      Angoulême
      Saintes
      Poitiers
      Périgueux
  * Novempopulana
  
      Eauze
      Auch
      Dax
      Lectoure
      Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges
      Saint-Lizier
      La Teste-de-Buch
      Pau
      Aire-sur-l'Adour
      Bazas
      Tarbes
      Oloron
  * Narbonensis Prima
  
      Narbonne
      Toulouse
      Béziers
      Nîmes
      Lodève
      Uzès
      Agde
      Maguelonne
  * Narbonensis Secunda
  
      Aix-en-Provence
      Apt
      Riez
      Fréjus
      Gap
      Sisteron
      Antibes
  * Alpes Maritimae
  
      Embrun
      Digne
      Barcelonette
      Castellane
      Senez
      Glandèves
      Cimiez
      Vence
  