Sapaudia

right|400px|thumb|Sapaudia in 443 (dark green) in the Kingdom of Burgundy (light green). It covered most of the [[Swiss Plateau.]] Sapaudia or Sabaudia was an Alpine territory of Late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

==Name== The name is a Latinisation of the local words for "forest" or "upland forest", although it is often glossed as "fir" from the roughly similar Latin '. It developed first into ' and thence into Italian '' (Savoy; , ).