Aude

Also known as Cathar Country

departamento de Francia

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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of: department of France
Named after: Aude
Official name: Aude
Country: France
Located in: Languedoc-Roussillon
Contains: arrondissement of Narbonne
Capital: Carcassonne
Population: 379648
Area: 6139
Time zone: UTC+02:00
Body of water: Aude
Shares border with: Hérault
Highest point: Pic de Madrès
Official website: www.aude.fr
Image: Carcassonne JPG01.jpg

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category for people born here: Category:Births in Aude
Commons category: Aude
inception: 1790-03-04
topic's main category: Category:Aude
Commons gallery: Aude
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Aude
category of associated people: Category:People from Aude
annual number of weddings: 1249
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
native label: Aude
P8168: Robert Rauschenberg
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Article · Español

Aude (11; AFI: [od]) es un departamento de Francia cuya capital es Carcasona. Forma parte de la región de Occitania. Su gentilicio francés es Audois. De las tres patrias del cassoulet (Carcasona, Castelnaudary y Toulouse) dos se encuentran en Aude (Carcasona y Castelnaudary), siendo el cassoulet uno de los platos más célebres de la gastronomía francesa.

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