Aude

Also known as Cathar Country

Aude ( ; ; ) is a department in southern France, located in Occitania and named after the river Aude. The departmental council also calls it "Cathar Country" (French: Pays cathare) after a group of religious dissidents active in the 12th to 14th centuries.

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Aude is a department (administrative region) in southern France named after the Aude river, located in the Occitania area. It's sometimes called "Cathar Country" because of the medieval religious group called the Cathars who were active there from the 12th to 14th centuries.

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Aude
Settlement.native_name_lang: fr
Settlement.type: Department
Settlement.image_caption: From top down, left to right: Carcassonne, prefecture traversed by the Aude River, Mediterranean coast near Narbonne, Caudeval and Peyriac-de-Mer
Settlement.image_flag: Drapeau non-offiicel fr département Aude.svg
Settlement.image_shield: Blason dpt fr Aude.svg
Settlement.image_map: Aude-Position.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Aude in France
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: France
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Occitanie
Settlement.seat_type: Prefecture
Settlement.seat: Carcassonne
Settlement.parts_type: Subprefectures
Settlement.parts_style: para
Settlement.p1: LimouxNarbonne
Settlement.leader_party: PS

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Encyclopedic overview

47 sections

Contents

Geography
Location
Natural regions
Landscapes
Geology
Climate
Hydrography
Principal towns
History
Prehistory
Roman Era
Barbarian invasions
Middle Ages
Catharism in Aude
The Protestant crisis and economic expansion of the department
The creation of the department
The 20th century
Heraldry
Economy
Overview
Agriculture and fisheries
Viticulture
Industry and energy
Crafts
Demography
Transport
Politics
National Assembly Representatives (before 2022)
Education
Culture
Festivals and traditions
Sport
Gastronomy
Occitan
Tourism
Overview of tourist areas
Architectural heritage
Caving
Secondary housing
Arts
Cinema
Painters
Notable people
See also
References
Sources
External links

Its prefecture is Carcassonne and its subprefectures are Limoux and Narbonne. As of 2023, it had a population of 379,648. Aude is a frequent feminine French given name in Francophone countries, deriving initially from Aude or Oda, a wife of Bertrand, Duke of Aquitaine, and mother of Eudo, brother of Saint Hubertus. Aude was the name of Roland's fiancée in the chansons de geste.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aude” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.