The Duchy Of Aquitaine

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In the twelfth century, France was a geographical expression which countries, was divided between several people who spoke different languages. The duchy of Aquitaine was the largest of their fiefs. It was passed down by inheritance to the counts of Poiters, and count dukes who ruled almost everyone in South western and France from river Loire to the Pyrenees. They all spoke a dialect language of northern people which separated the Aquitaine from a certain extent. People of the Aquitaine, including all rulers and Eleanor spoke many different languages from everyone else. It was an achievement from the Provencal to create the first lyric poetry from what they deserve except for Irish in Western Europe. Some of their poems that was written

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