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Occitania is the southernmost administrative region of metropolitan France, created in 2016 from the merger of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. It is named after the historical and cultural region of Occitania, which covers the southern third of France and has a rich linguistic and cultural diversity.
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Occitanie (Occitan: Occitània, Catalan: Occitània) is an...
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Occitania (Occitan: Occitània [utsiˈtanjɔ, uksiˈtanjɔ],...
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L'Occitanie est la région la plus au sud de la France continentale, issue de la fusion de Languedoc-Roussillon et Midi-Pyrénées. Elle comporte 13 départements, son chef-lieu est Toulouse et son nom vient de l'occitan, langue régionale.
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The extent of Occitania may vary according to the criteria used: 1. Based on a geolinguistic definition, Occitania is the area of Occitan language as surveyed at the end fof the XIXth century.The formerly Occitanophone regions are not included. On the other hand one always speaks Occitan in the French Basque Country and in the Catalan Countries (th...
Occitania comes from the medieval Latin Occitania. The first part of the name, Occ-, comes from Occitan òc and the expression langue d'oc, in Italian lingua d'oc. It is an appellation promoted by Dante Alighieri of Occitan by the way of saying "yes" in Old Occitan-Catalan; as opposed to the "langue de si" (Italian) and the "langue d'oïl" (Old Frenc...
The langue d'ocis a territorialized language, that is to say, spoken mainly on a territory whose boundaries can be described. This part attempts to describe the origins of the Occitanie concept, the different names that this territory has taken and the creation of the modern concept of Occitania.
Occitania includes the following regions: 1. The southern half of France: Provence, Drôme-Vivarais, Auvergne, Limousin, Guyenne, Gascony, southern Dauphiné and Languedoc. French is now the dominant language in this area, where Occitan is not recognized as an official language. 2. The Occitan Valleys in the Italian Аlps, where the Occitan language r...
Written texts in Occitan appeared in the 10th century: it was first used in legal texts, and then in literary, scientific, and religious texts. Spoken dialects of Occitan are many centuries older and appeared as soon as the 8th century, at least, as revealed through toponyms and Occitanized words left in Latinmanuscripts. Occitania was often politi...
Although not really a colony in a modern sense, there was an Occitan enclave in the County of Tripoli, founded in 1102 by Raymond IV of Toulouse during the Crusades north of Jerusalem. Most people in this county came from Occitania and Italy. Around the 14th century, some "Provençal" settlements were founded by Valdenses in Ssouthern Italy: the Cap...
Occitanist associations or organizations
The oldest Occitanist association is the Felibritge, founded in 1854. In 1945, after the Second World War, some of the association's members founded a distinct movement, the Institut d'Estudis Occitans(Institute of Occitan Studies). The main movements in France are as follows: 1. Felibritgehistorical Mistralian, literary and linguistic movement. 2. Institut d'Estudis Occitans(IEO), maintenance and development of the Occitan language and culture as a whole. 3. Calandreta, private associations...
There are 14 to 16 million inhabitants in Occitania today. According to the 1999 census, there are 610,000 native speakers and another million people with some exposure to the language. Native speakers of Occitan are to be found mostly in the older generations. The Institut d'Estudis Occitans (IEO) has been modernizing the Occitan language since 19...
The Occitan language is only recognized as official, protected and promoted in the Val d'Aran (in Spain); in Italy it has the status of a protected language; and in Franceit only has acceptance in the educational network but without legal recognition. The Fédération des langues régionales pour l'enseignement publiccalculated the number of students ...
The troubadour school first marked the emergence of a distinct Occitan culture during the High Middle Ages. The troubadours were highly appreciated for their refined lyricism and influenced many ot...Occitan literature experienced a rebirth during the Baroque period, mainly in Gascony through the Béarnese dialect. Indeed, Béarnese was the mother-tongue Henry IV of France, whose designation spar...Frédéric Mistral and his Félibrige school marked the renewal of the Occitan language in literature in the middle of the 19th century. Mistral won the 1904 Nobel Prize in literature, illustrating th...Occitanie, region of southern France created in 2016 by the union of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrenees. It is bounded by the regions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, and Provence–Alpes–Cote d’Azur and by Spain, Andorra, and the Mediterranean Sea. The capital is Toulouse.
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L'Occitanie est une région du Sud de la France, issue de la fusion des anciennes régions Languedoc-Roussillon et Midi-Pyrénées. Elle est bordée par la mer Méditerranée, le Rhône, l'Espagne et Andorre, et regroupe les départements de l'Ariège à la Tarn-et-Garonne.
Occitanie (Occitan: Occitània, Catalan: Occitània) is an administrative region of France. It was created on 1 January 2016 from the former French regions Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. The name in French, Occitanie, was approved as the new name of the region on 28 September 2016. [1]
Occitanie peut désigner une région historique, linguistique et culturelle du sud de la France, ou une région administrative issue de la fusion de Languedoc-Roussillon et de Midi-Pyrénées. Consultez les articles liés pour en savoir plus sur l'occitan, l'occitanisme et l'histoire d'Occitanie.
