Comminges

Le Comminges (in Gascon Comenge ) is a not officially delimited geographical area, and recovering the south of the Haute-Garonne

Situation

This old region of the southernmost France, in High the Gascogne, distributed today between the departments of the Haute-Garonne, the Ariège and the Gers, divided:
  1. in Gascon Comminges or Haut-Comminges , in the South, between the Bigorre and the Couserans; chief town Saint-Bertrand-with-Comminges; other cities: Saint-Martory, Montespan, Low wall, Lombez, Aurignac, Isle-in-Dodon;
  2. in Comminges Languedocien , known as also Bas-Comminges and Small Comminges , in North East, between Gascon Comminges, Couserans, the County of Foix and the High-Languedoc; cities, Saint-Happy and Valentine.

Comminges is divided into small countries centered mainly on the high valley of the the Garonne and on that of its affluent the Pique: Larboust , country of Luchon , Ballongue , Oueil , Bavartès , Layrines , Frontignès , country of Winder , country of River , country of Dodon .

The term of Nebouzan applies more specifically to the area of Saint-Gaudens.

The Gallo-Roman site of Lugdunum Convenarum, close to Saint-Bertrand-with-Comminges, was the capital of the Convènes (in Latin Convenae ).

See too

Related articles

  • Company of the studies of Comminges - Association founded into 1884 which is devoted to the study of Comminges and publishes the Revue of Comminges
  • the Comté of Comminges
  • Liste of the counts de Comminges
  • Novempopulanie
  • Gascogne

External bonds

  • Company of the studies of Comminges and the '' Revue of Comminges and the central Pyrenees '' (founded in 1885)
  • To live in Comminges: Web site of information on Comminges
  • the comminges on wikitravel

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