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Sapaudia or
Sabaudia was an
Alpine territory of Late
antiquity and the Dark Ages. The name is a
Latinisation of the
local words for "forest" or "upland...
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Roman Republic subdued in 121 BC. The name
Savoy stems from the Late
Latin Sapaudia,
referring to a fir, or upland, forest. The word is
likely ultimately from...
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south into
Roman Gaul and
settled in
large numbers in the
territory of
Sapaudia, in what is
today western Switzerland and
northeastern France,
before expanding...
- empire.
During the
resulting peace,
Aetius resettled the
Burgundians in
Sapaudia in
southern Gaul. In the 430s,
Aetius negotiated peace with the
Suevi in...
- 407 – 436), son of
Gebicca Flavius Aëtius
moves the
Burgundians into
Sapaudia (Upper Rhône Basin). Gunderic/Gundioc (436–473)
opposed by
Chilperic I...
- killed. The
Romans led the
survivors southwards to the
Roman district of
Sapaudia (modern-day Savoy). The
story of this war
later inspired the Nibelungenlied...
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Kingdom in the 11th century. It was the
cradle of the ****ure
Savoyard state.
Sapaudia,
stretching south of Lake
Geneva from the Rhône
River to the
Western Alps...
- 443 as ' 'foederati' ' in
western Switzerland, in the
region known as
Sapaudia, as a
buffer against the
growing strength of the Alamanni. This settlement...
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widely accepted[citation needed] that
Savoie takes its name from the
Latin Sapaudia or Sabaudia,
meaning land
covered in fir trees.
Savoie was long part of...
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foederati status a
second time, and in 443 were
resettled by Aëtius in
Sapaudia, part of the Gallo-Roman
province of
Maxima Sequanorum.
Burgundians probably...
