Aquitaine

Aquitaine is a historical region located in southwestern France, along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountains, bordering Spain. It was also a former administrative region of France, founded on June 4, 1960, and dissolved on December 31, 2015, when it became part of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine administrative region. Historically, it was a Roman province known as Gallia Aquitania, and in the Middle Ages, it existed as a kingdom and a duchy with shifting borders. Bordeaux has served as a crucial port and administrative center throughout much of Aquitaine's history. The region is composed of five departments: Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes, and Gironde.