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The Province of Languedoc (/ ˌ l ɒ̃ ɡ (ə) ˈ d ɒ k /, French: [lɑ̃ɡ(ə)dɔk], locally [lãᵑɡəˈdɔk]; Occitan: Lengadòc [ˌleŋɡɔˈðɔ(k)]) is a former province of France. Most of its territory is now contained in the modern-day region of Occitanie in Southern France. Its capital city was Toulouse. It had an area of ...
Languedoc-Roussillon (French pronunciation: [lɑ̃ɡ(ə)dɔk ʁusijɔ̃] ... The region was conquered by Pépin the Short (fall of Narbonne in 759), [12] ...
Ferdinand the Saint conquered Huelva and obtained the vassalage of Niebla, Andalusia. 28 September: James the Conqueror captured Valencia and created himself king of the Kingdom of Valencia. 1240: Ferdinand the Saint conquered Écija and Lucena, Córdoba. 1243: Ferdinand the Saint captured Orihuela and obtained the vassalage of Murcia. 1244: 26 ...
Battle of Soissons (486): A Frankish army under Clovis I defeated Syagrius and conquered the Domain of Soissons. Syagrius sought refuge in Alaric II's kingdom, but was later handed back to Clovis and beheaded.
This is the list of governors of Languedoc : Languedoc was a former province of France, which existed until 1789. 1339–1345 : Jean de Marigny;
Meanwhile, the island of Corsica, a long-time possession of the Republic of Genoa and briefly an independent republic, was conquered in 1768. Following the revolution , the new republic annexed the last remaining exclaves surrounded by France, such as the papal territory of Avignon , and conquered the former Austrian Netherlands (modern day ...
In this study of the peasantry of Languedoc over several centuries, Le Roy Ladurie employed a huge range of quantitative information such as tithe records, wage books, tax receipts, rent receipts and profit records, together with the theories of a number of historians and non historian thinkers to contend that the history of Languedoc was "l'histoire immobile" (history that stands still).
The Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis fell to the Visigothic Kingdom in the 5th century. Septimania, the Visigothic province roughly corresponding to the later county of Toulouse, fell briefly to the Emirate of Córdoba in the 750s before it was conquered into Francia by Pippin the Short in 759 following the Siege of Narbonne.