chiefdom · France and the Low Countries

Vasates

300 BCE – 56 BCE (approx.) · capital Cossium

Aquitanian people south of the Garonne whose town Cossium became Bazas, centre of the Bazadais.

Origins

The Vasates, called Vocates by Caesar, lived south of the middle Garonne in the modern Gironde. They surrendered to Publius Crassus in 56 BCE with the other Aquitanian peoples.

Rule and society

No rulers or institutions are known. Their territory lay between the Garonne valley and the Landes forest, on the route from Burdigala to the Pyrenees.

Decline and legacy

Under Rome their chief town Cossium was renamed Civitas Vasatica, from which comes Bazas. The poet Ausonius had family links with the town, and its district kept the name Bazadais.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Vasates. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/vasates
MLA
“Vasates.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/vasates. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Vasates.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/vasates.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Vasates’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/vasates (Accessed: ).

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