Abstract EN:

The agenais is a little country of the middle regions of the garonne. Its name comes from agen, notobroges' county town during the antiquity. This celtic people probably settled on the third century bc on the north bank of the garonne. It was only at the augustean age that its territory expanded beyond the river, giving birth to the historic agenais. The garonne has weakened the agenais, as a political or cultural border, between the northern areas (celtic gaul during the iron age, aquitania in the early middle age) and the southern ones (aquitania during the iron age, gascony in the early middle age). Nevertheless, this country wich has been partly structured by the southern-northern protohistoric axes, has kept its specificity, given birth to the lot-etgaronne, geographical department. Since the iron age, the human settlement has concentrated near the waterways, especially near the garonne and the lot. Those two rivers have attracted populations, cultural influences and goods, coming from central and easter gaul of from the mediterranean area.