Aquileia, at the time of the destruction of that city by the Huns, A. D. 452, was, "both as a fortress and a commercial emporium, second to none in Northern Italy. It was situated at the northernmost point of the gulf of Hadria, about twenty miles northwest of Trieste, and the place where it once stood is now in the Austrian dominions, just over the border which separates them from the kingdom of Italy. In the year 181 B. C. a Roman colony had been sent to this far corner of Italy to serve as an outpost against some intrusive tribes, called by the vague name of Gauls. ... Possessing a good harbour, with which it was connected by a navigable river, Aquileia gradually became the chief entrepôt for the commerce between Italy and what are now the Illyrian provinces of Austria." _T. Hodgkin, Italy and Her Invaders, book 2, chapter 4._ AQUILEIA: A. D. 238.--Siege by Maximin. See ROME: A. D. 238. AQUILEIA: A. D. 388.--Overthrow of Maximus by Theodosius. See ROME: A. D. 379-395. AQUILEIA: A. D. 452.--Destruction by the Huns. See HUNS: A. D. 452; also, VENICE: A. D. 452. ----------AQUILEIA: End---------- AQUITAINE: The ancient tribes. The Roman conquest of Aquitania was achieved, B. C. 56, by one of Cæsar's lieutenants, the Younger Crassus, who first brought the people called the Sotiates to submission and then defeated their combined neighbors in a murderous battle, where three-fourths of them are said to have been slain. The tribes which then submitted "were the Tarbelli, Bigerriones, Preciani, Vocates, Tarusates, Elusates, Garites, Ausci, Garumni, Sibuzates and Cocosates. The Tarbelli were in the lower basin of the Adour. Their chief place was on the site of the hot springs of Dax. The Bigerriones appear in the name Bigorre. The chief place of the Elusates was Elusa, Eause; and the town of Auch on the river Gers preserves the name of the Ausci. The names Garites, if the name is genuine, and Garumni contain the same element, Gar, as the river Garumna [Garonne] and the Gers. It is stated by Walckenaer that the inhabitants of the southern part of Les Landes are still called Cousiots. Cocosa, Caussèque, is twenty-four miles from Dax on the road from Dax to Bordeaux." _G. Long, Decline of the Roman Republic, volume 4, chapter 6._ "Before the arrival of the brachycephalic Ligurian race, the Iberians ranged over the greater part of France. ... If, as seems probable, we may identify them with the Aquitani, one of the three races which occupied Gaul in the time of Cæsar, they must have retreated to the neighbourhood of the Pyrenees before the beginning of the historic period." _I. Taylor, Origin of the Aryans, chapter 2, section 5._ AQUITAINE: In Cæsar's time. See GAUL DESCRIBED BY CÆSAR. AQUITAINE: Settlement of the Visigoths. See GOTHS (VISIGOTHS): A. D. 410-419.