Rouergue

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Rouergue

Rouergue is a former province of France

Provinces of France

The Kingdom of France was organised into provinces until March 4, 1790, when the establishment of the d?partement in France system superseded provinces....
, bounded on the north by Auvergne

Auvergne (province)

Auvergne was a historic province of France in south central France. It was originally the feudal domain of the List of rulers of Auvergne. It is now the geographical and cultural area that corresponds to the former province....
, on the south and southwest by Languedoc

Languedoc

Languedoc is a former province of France, now continued in the modern-day List of regions in France 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....
, on the east by Gévaudan

Gévaudan

G?vaudan is an historical area of France, nowadays situated in Loz?re d?partement in France. It took its name from the Gabali, a Gallic tribe subordinate to the Arverni....
and on the west by Quercy

Quercy

Quercy is a former province of France located in the southwest of France, bounded on the north by Limousin , on the west by P?rigord and Agenais, on the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and on the east by Rouergue and Auvergne ....
. Its capital is Rodez

Rodez

Rodez is a city and communes of France in southern France, in the Aveyron Departments of France, of which it is the capital. Its inhabitants are called Ruthenois....
.

Rouergue was turned into a département in 1790, which was called Aveyron

Aveyron

Aveyron is a departments of France in southern France named after the Aveyron River....
, after the main river flowing through it. When the Tarn-et-Garonne

Tarn-et-Garonne

Tarn-et-Garonne is a French departments of France in the southwest of France....
département was created in 1808, Aveyron had to relinquish the extreme west of its territory, which became part of Tarn-et-Garonne, so that today most of Rouergue is the Aveyron département, while a small part of Rouergue is the extreme east of Tarn-et-Garonne.

The province of Rouergue has a land area of 9,007 km²

1 E9 m²

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(3,478 sq.

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Rouergue is a former province of France

Provinces of France

Auvergne (province)

Languedoc

Gévaudan

Quercy

Rodez

Aveyron

Aveyron is a departments of France in southern France named after the Aveyron River....
, after the main river flowing through it. When the Tarn-et-Garonne

Tarn-et-Garonne

1 E9 m²

To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 km2 and 10,000 km2. See also orders of magnitude ....
(3,478 sq. miles). At the 1999 census there were 269,774 inhabitants on the territory of the province of Rouergue, which means a density of only 30 inh. per km² (78 inh. per sq. mile). The largest urban areas are Rodez, with 38,458 inhabitants in 1999, Millau

Millau

Millau is a Communes of France in the Aveyron Departments of France in southern France. It is located at the confluence of the Tarn River and Dourbie rivers....
, with 22,840 inhabitants in 1999, Decazeville

Decazeville

Decazeville is a Communes of France in the Aveyron Departments of France in southwestern France.The town was named after ?lie, duc Decazes....
, with 17,044 inhabitants in 1999, and Villefranche-de-Rouergue

Villefranche-de-Rouergue

Villefranche-de-Rouergue is a Communes of France in the Aveyron Departments of France in southern France....
, with 12,561 inhabitants in 1999.

Rouergue included the county of Rodez

County of Rodez

The County of Rodez was a fief of the County of Toulouse formed out of part of the old County of Rouergue in what is today Aveyron, France. Its capital was Rodez....
, and was divided between the diocese

Diocese

In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglicanism, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a bishop. It is also referred to as a bishopric or Episcopal Area or episcopal see, though strictly the term episcopal see refers to the domain of ecclesiastical authority officially held by the bi...
s of Rodez

Rodez

Rodez is a city and communes of France in southern France, in the Aveyron Departments of France, of which it is the capital. Its inhabitants are called Ruthenois....
and Vabres

Vabres

Vabres is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:* Vabres, Cantal, in the Cantal department* Vabres, Gard, in the Gard department...
.

During the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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, Rouergue changed hands a number of times, its rulers including England

England

Treaty of Brétigny

The Treaty of Br?tigny was a treaty signed on 8 May 1360, between Edward III of England of England and John II of France of France. The treaty was signed at Br?tigny, Eure-et-Loir, a village near Chartres, and marked the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War , as well as the height of English hegemony on the Continental Europe....
in 1360), Armagnac

Armagnac (party)

The Armagnac party was prominent in French politics and warfare during the Hundred Years' War. They were allied with the supporters of Charles, Duke of Orl?ans against John the Fearless after Charles' father Louis, Duke of Orl?ans was killed at the orders of the Duke of Burgundy in 1407....
, and Languedoc.