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TER Languedoc-Roussillon was the regional rail network serving Languedoc-Roussillon région in France. The région became the organising authority on 1 January 2002. In 2017 it was merged into the new TER Occitanie.
17.9% of Languedoc-Roussillon was formerly the province of Gévaudan, now the department of Lozère. A small part of the former Gévaudan lies inside the current Auvergne region. Gévaudan is often considered to be a sub-province inside the province of Languedoc, in which case Languedoc would account for 86.6% of Languedoc-Roussillon.
The Regional council of Languedoc-Roussillon was the deliberative assembly of the former French region of Languedoc-Roussillon, local authority decentralized acting on the regional territory. It was headquartered in Montpellier , [ 1 ] in a Hôtel built in 1988 by Ricardo Bofill , [ 2 ] overlooking the Lez (from its left bank) and the Place de ...
The term Languedoc originated to describe a cultural region that was not necessarily politically unified. After the decline of the Carolingian Empire political rule fragmented into small territorial divisions. [1] King John of England lost his holdings in northern Languedoc to Philip II of France. He visited the region in 1214 seeking the ...
Clairette de Languedoc; Coteaux du Languedoc – Red wine, White wine, Rosé; Coteaux du Languedoc Pic Saint Loup; Costières de Nîmes – Red wine. According to some sources, this appellation is now considered a part of Rhône rather than Languedoc. Faugères – Red wine; Muscat de Frontignan – White wine, Fortified wine; Muscat de Lunel ...
Château de Canet-en-Roussillon: Canet-en-Roussillon - Castle: Château de Castelnou: Castelnou - Castle: Château Royal de Collioure: Collioure - Château de Fenouillet: Fenouillet - Fort Lagarde: Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste - Fort Libéria: Villefranche-de-Conflent - Palace: Palais des rois de Majorque: Perpignan: Classified as a Monument ...
Aude (French: ⓘ ohd; Occitan:) is a department in Southern France, located in the Occitanie region and named after the river Aude. [3] The departmental council also calls it "Cathar Country" (French: Pays cathare) after a group of religious dissidents active in the 12th to 14th centuries.
The Languedoc-Roussillon region shares many terrain and climate characteristics with the neighboring regions of Southern Rhône and Provence.The region stretches 150 miles (240 km) from the Banyuls AOC at the Spanish border and Pyrenees in the west, along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to the river Rhône and Provence in the east. [2]