Vocasates

Map of the Novempopulania.

Vocations (in Latin, Vocates) or vasates were an Aquitaine village of Novempopulania. They have given their name to the city of Bazas and to its region, the Bazadais (southeast of the Gironde). Julius Caesar called them Vocati and Pliny the Elder, Vassei and Basabocati. Some authors correct the Basabocati reading in Basaboiati, a term that may already indicate an intermediate village between vasates and boyates or can be seen as a simple concatenation of the two names in the private text of interpolations.

After the first Iron Age, its capital Cossium was a fortification from which they controlled the footsteps between Tolosa and Burdigala. The ethnonym Vasati can be explained with a Basque origin of the term baso, "forest", or a hydrónimo * uad "vado" (cf. Latin, vadus). The place name Cossium is instead a Latinization of the root aquita * koiz (gascón coç, cos) "cerro", "colinoso" * koiz, in Basque goiz "height".

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