Sapaudia or Sabaudia was an Alpine territory of Late antiquity and the Dark Ages. The name is a Latinisation of the local words for "forest" or "upland...

Roman Republic subdued in 121 BC. The name Savoy stems from the Late Latin Sapaudia, referring to a fir, or upland, forest. The word is likely ultimately from...

south into Roman Gaul and settled in large numbers in the territory of Sapaudia, in what is today western Switzerland and northeastern France, before expanding...

empire. During the resulting peace, Aetius resettled the Burgundians in Sapaudia in southern Gaul. In the 430s, Aetius negotiated peace with the Suevi in...

killed. The Romans led the survivors southwards to the Roman district of Sapaudia (modern-day Savoy). The story of this war later inspired the Nibelungenlied...

407 – 436), son of Gebicca Flavius Aëtius moves the Burgundians into Sapaudia (Upper Rhône Basin). Gunderic/Gundioc (436–473) opposed by Chilperic I...

widely accepted[citation needed] that Savoie takes its name from the Latin Sapaudia or Sabaudia, meaning land covered in fir trees. Savoie was long part of...

Kingdom in the 11th century. It was the cradle of the future Savoyard state. Sapaudia, stretching south of Lake Geneva from the Rhône River to the Western Alps...

443 as ' 'foederati' ' in western Switzerland, in the region known as Sapaudia, as a buffer against the growing strength of the Alamanni. This settlement...

emperors, the family was granted the counties of Maurienne, Aosta and Sapaudia (Savoy), all at the expense of local bishops or archbishops. Otto inherited...