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Urgell is one of the historical Catalan counties
Catalan counties

The Catalan counties were the administrative divisions of the eastern Carolingian Marca Hispanica created after its Frankish conquest. The various counties roughly defined what came to be known as the Principality of Catalonia....
, bordering on the counties of Pallars and Cerdanya
Cerdanya

Cerdanya is a small region of the eastern Pyrenees divided between France and Spain and which is historically one of the Catalan counties.Cerdanya has a land area of 1,086.07 km? , 50.3% being Spanish territory, 49.7% being French territory....
. Its maximal extension territory was between the Pyrenees
Pyrenees

The Pyrenees are a mountain range in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain. They separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extend for about from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea ....
 and the taifa
Taifa

In the history of Iberian Peninsula, a taifa was an independent Muslim-ruled principality, an emirate or petty kingdom, of which a number formed in the Al-Andalus after the final collapse of the Umayyad Caliph of Cordoba in 1031....
 of Lleida
Lleida

Lleida is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It had 131,731 inhabitants , including the attached municipalities of Ra?mat and Sucs. It is the central city of the Lleida ....
, that is, the current comarques
Comarques of Catalonia

This is a list of the comarques of Catalonia . A comarca is roughly equivalent to a United States "county" or a United Kingdom "Districts of England"....
 of Alt Urgell
Alt Urgell

Alt Urgell is a Comarques of Catalonia in Catalonia, Spain, a modern representation of part of the historic County of Urgell , seat of the Counts of Urgell and the historic region of Urgellet....
, Noguera
Noguera (comarca)

Noguera is a Comarques of Catalonia in Catalonia, Spain. It is part of the historic county of Urgell. Its capital is Balaguer....
, Solsonès
Solsonès

Solson?s is a Comarques of Catalonia in Catalonia, Spain. It is part of historic county of Urgell. Over 60% of its people live in the capital, Solsona, Lleida....
, Pla d'Urgell
Pla d'Urgell

Pla d'Urgell is a Comarques of Catalonia in the interior of Catalonia, Spain....
, Urgell
Urgell (comarca)

Modern-day Urgell is a Comarques of Catalonia in Catalonia, Spain, forming only a portion of the region historically known as Urgell....
 itself, and the still independent country of Andorra
Andorra

Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, is a small landlocked country in western Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France....
. The historical capital was first la Seu d'Urgell
La Seu d'Urgell

La Seu d'Urgell is the capital of the Comarques of Catalonia Alt Urgell, in the province of Lleida, in Catalonia, Spain. It will be the capital or cocapital of vegueria veguerie of Alt Pirineu i Aran , the new regional structure of Catalonia....
 and later Balaguer
Balaguer

Balaguer is the capital of the Catalonia/Comarques of Noguera , in the province of Lleida , Catalonia, Spain.It is located at 233 metres above the sea, by the river Segre, a tributary to the Ebre....
. The county of Urgell was extinguished and absorbed by the County of Barcelona in 1413, after the revolt of the last count, James II of Urgell
James II of Urgell

James II was the Count of Urgell , Viscount of ?ger, and lord of Antill?n, Alcolea de Cinca, and Fraga. Scion of a younger branch of the House of Barcelona and its last male member, he was the centre of opposition to the House of Trast?mara after its succeeded to the Crown of Aragon in 1412....
, against the king Ferdinand I of Aragon
Ferdinand I of Aragon

File:Ferran d'Antequera al retaule Sancho de Rojas .jpgFerdinand I called of Antequera and also the Just or the Honest, was king of kingdom of Aragon, kingdom of Valencia, kingdom of Majorca, kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica and king of kingdom of Sicily, duke of duchy of Athens and Neopatria, and County of Barcelona, cou...
.

There is also a diocese of Urgell.






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Urgell is one of the historical Catalan counties
Catalan counties

The Catalan counties were the administrative divisions of the eastern Carolingian Marca Hispanica created after its Frankish conquest. The various counties roughly defined what came to be known as the Principality of Catalonia....
, bordering on the counties of Pallars and Cerdanya
Cerdanya

Cerdanya is a small region of the eastern Pyrenees divided between France and Spain and which is historically one of the Catalan counties.Cerdanya has a land area of 1,086.07 km? , 50.3% being Spanish territory, 49.7% being French territory....
. Its maximal extension territory was between the Pyrenees
Pyrenees

The Pyrenees are a mountain range in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain. They separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extend for about from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea ....
 and the taifa
Taifa

In the history of Iberian Peninsula, a taifa was an independent Muslim-ruled principality, an emirate or petty kingdom, of which a number formed in the Al-Andalus after the final collapse of the Umayyad Caliph of Cordoba in 1031....
 of Lleida
Lleida

Lleida is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It had 131,731 inhabitants , including the attached municipalities of Ra?mat and Sucs. It is the central city of the Lleida ....
, that is, the current comarques
Comarques of Catalonia

This is a list of the comarques of Catalonia . A comarca is roughly equivalent to a United States "county" or a United Kingdom "Districts of England"....
 of Alt Urgell
Alt Urgell

Alt Urgell is a Comarques of Catalonia in Catalonia, Spain, a modern representation of part of the historic County of Urgell , seat of the Counts of Urgell and the historic region of Urgellet....
, Noguera
Noguera (comarca)

Noguera is a Comarques of Catalonia in Catalonia, Spain. It is part of the historic county of Urgell. Its capital is Balaguer....
, Solsonès
Solsonès

Solson?s is a Comarques of Catalonia in Catalonia, Spain. It is part of historic county of Urgell. Over 60% of its people live in the capital, Solsona, Lleida....
, Pla d'Urgell
Pla d'Urgell

Pla d'Urgell is a Comarques of Catalonia in the interior of Catalonia, Spain....
, Urgell
Urgell (comarca)

Modern-day Urgell is a Comarques of Catalonia in Catalonia, Spain, forming only a portion of the region historically known as Urgell....
 itself, and the still independent country of Andorra
Andorra

Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, is a small landlocked country in western Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France....
. The historical capital was first la Seu d'Urgell
La Seu d'Urgell

La Seu d'Urgell is the capital of the Comarques of Catalonia Alt Urgell, in the province of Lleida, in Catalonia, Spain. It will be the capital or cocapital of vegueria veguerie of Alt Pirineu i Aran , the new regional structure of Catalonia....
 and later Balaguer
Balaguer

Balaguer is the capital of the Catalonia/Comarques of Noguera , in the province of Lleida , Catalonia, Spain.It is located at 233 metres above the sea, by the river Segre, a tributary to the Ebre....
. The county of Urgell was extinguished and absorbed by the County of Barcelona in 1413, after the revolt of the last count, James II of Urgell
James II of Urgell

James II was the Count of Urgell , Viscount of ?ger, and lord of Antill?n, Alcolea de Cinca, and Fraga. Scion of a younger branch of the House of Barcelona and its last male member, he was the centre of opposition to the House of Trast?mara after its succeeded to the Crown of Aragon in 1412....
, against the king Ferdinand I of Aragon
Ferdinand I of Aragon

File:Ferran d'Antequera al retaule Sancho de Rojas .jpgFerdinand I called of Antequera and also the Just or the Honest, was king of kingdom of Aragon, kingdom of Valencia, kingdom of Majorca, kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica and king of kingdom of Sicily, duke of duchy of Athens and Neopatria, and County of Barcelona, cou...
.

There is also a diocese of Urgell. 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...
 was an old one, and traditions of the early Christian church lingered; Felix of Urgel's
Felix, Bishop of Urgel

Felix, Bishop of Urgel , was a Christian bishop and theologian in the eighth century.Felix became Bishop at and unknon date and lived at the monastery Sant Sadurn? de Tabernoles in the foothills of the Pyrenees....
 tendencies towards the heretical
Heresy

Heresy is an introduced change to some system of belief, especially a religion, that conflicts with the previously established canon of that belief....
 position of adoptionism
Adoptionism

Adoptionism, also called dynamic monarchianism, was a minority Christian belief that Jesus was born merely human and that he became divine later in his life....
 was attacked by Alcuin of York in Contra Felicem (Runciman, 1947). Andorra
Andorra

Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, is a small landlocked country in western Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France....
 was ceded to the bishop of Urgell by the count Ermengol IV of Urgell
Ermengol IV of Urgell

Ermengol or Armengol IV , called el de Gerb or Gerp, was the Count of Urgell from 1066 to his death. He was the son of Ermengol III of Urgell and Clemence, daughter of Bernard II of Bigorre....
 in the twelfth century. There is still a bishop of Urgell, who since 2003 has been Joan Enric Vives Sicília
Joan Enric Vives Sicília

Joan Enric Vives i Sic?lia is the current Diocese of Urgell, a Roman Catholic diocese, and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. He was officially appointed on May 12, 2003, replacing Joan Mart? Alanis....
. This role carries with it the position of joint head of state of Andorra
Andorra

Andorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, is a small landlocked country in western Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France....
.

See also

  • Counts of Urgell
    Counts of Urgell

    This is a list of the counts of Urgell....
  • Urgell (comarca)
    Urgell (comarca)

    Modern-day Urgell is a Comarques of Catalonia in Catalonia, Spain, forming only a portion of the region historically known as Urgell....
    , about the modern-day Catalan comarca (county)
    Comarques of Catalonia

    This is a list of the comarques of Catalonia . A comarca is roughly equivalent to a United States "county" or a United Kingdom "Districts of England"....
     of Urgell.