Message: "Pictavi and Poitou (Gaulish?) meaning"

Pictavi and Poitou (Gaulish?) meaning

by Bagpus (guest)

6/12/2006, 10:10 AM

Pictavi i find in (what is now) France and Scotland

Poitou is Gaulish/ early French?

Meanings? and thoughts welcome....

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- Jenna (Jenna R) +1

6/14/2006, 8:37 PM

Poitou was city-state/kingdom in western France; it's capital was Poitiers. I'm not sure when it was founded and when it fell, but I know it existed in the 1100 and 1200s. At one point, Eleanor of Aquaintaine ruled it.

"Les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le coeur." -- Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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- Bagpus (guest)

6/15/2006, 7:22 AM

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