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Gironde ( in Occitan " Gironda ") is a department in the Nouvelle - Aquitaine region of southwest France . It is named for the Gironde estuary , a ___MASK39___ waterway . The Bordeaux wine region is in the Gironde . Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a ___MASK90___ state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . Sichilde ( ca . 590  627 ) was a Frankish ___MASK24___ in 618  627 ; married to Clotaire II . Charibert II ( 607 / 617 -- 8 April 632 ) , a son of Clotaire II and his junior wife Sichilde , was briefly King of Aquitaine from 629 to his death , with his capital at Toulouse . We have no direct statement about when Charibert was born exactly , only that he was `` a few years younger '' than his half - brother Dagobert . His father Clotaire evidently had a bigamous marriage ( not then uncommon ) and he was the offspring of the junior wife . When his father , Clotaire II , King of the Franks , died in 629 , Charibert made a bid for the kingdom of Neustria against his elder half - brother Dagobert I , who had already been king of Austrasia since 623 . In the ensuing negotiations , Charibert , a minor , was represented by his uncle Brodulf , the brother of Queen Sichilde . Dagobert had Brodulf killed , but did not intercede when his half - brother took over the near - independent realm of Aquitaine . Apparently this caused no disagreement , as in 631 Charibert stood godfather to Dagobert ' s son Sigebert . Charibert ' s realm included Toulouse , Cahors , Agen , Périgueux , and Saintes , to which he added his possessions in Gascony . Charibert was married to Gisela , the daughter of Amand , Ruler of the Gascons . His fighting force subdued the resistance of the Basques , until the whole Novempopulania ( become Duchy of Vasconia ) was under his control . In 632 , Charibert died at Blaye , Gironde -- possibly assassinated on Dagobert ' s orders -- and soon after that Charibert ' s infant son Chilperic was also killed . Aquitaine passed again to Dagobert . Both Charibert and his son are buried in the early Romanesque Basilica of Saint - Romain at Blaye . Aquitaine ( Poitevin - Saintongeais : " Aguiéne "), archaic " Guyenne "/" Guienne " ( Occitan : " Guiana ") was a traditional region of France , and was an administrative region of France until 1 January 2016 . It is now part of the new region Nouvelle - Aquitaine . It is situated in the south - western part of Metropolitan France , along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees ___MASK59___ range on the border with Spain . It is composed of the five departments of Dordogne , Lot - et - Garonne , Pyrénées - Atlantiques , Landes and Gironde . In the Middle Ages , Aquitaine was a kingdom and a duchy , whose boundaries fluctuated considerably .