Languedoc

Languedoc (Lengad?c in Occitan) is a former province of France, now continued in the modern-day r?gions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyr?n?es in the south of France, and whose capital city was Toulouse, now in Midi-Pyr?n?es. It had an area of approximately 42,700 km² (16,490 sq. miles).

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Languedoc should not be confused with the linguistic and cultural area of Occitania, to which it belongs, but which is larger than Languedoc.

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It should be noted that the traditional provinces of the kingdom of France had no official existence. They were not administrative units. A province was a territory set up by tradition and customs, and which people regarded as a unit, but provinces had no political organization. Therefore their territory had no strict limits as we think today of administrative units, and their number varied depending on the point of view of the geographers. Today, when people refer to the old provinces of France, they actually refer to the gouvernements as they existed in 1789. Gouvernements were military regions established in the middle of the 16th century and whose territories matched those of the traditional provinces. However, in some cases, small provinces had been merged with a large one into a single gouvernement, so gouvernements are not exactly the same as the traditional provinces.

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