Key facts
- Status
- Papal enclave
- Common languages
- Provençal Occitan French Latin
- Religion
- Roman Catholicism
- Historical era
- Middle Ages
- Death of alphonse count of poitiers
- 21 August 1271
- French occupation
- 1663, 1668, 1768–1774
- Reversed into france by plebiscite
- 14 September 1791
- Currency
- Roman scudo
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- vassal state
- Country
- Papal States
- Continent
- Europe
- Capital
- Pernes-les-Fontaines
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- Commons category
- Comtat Venaissin
- inception
- 1274-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1791-09-14
- topic's main category
- Category:Comtat Venaissin
- replaced by
- French constitutional monarchy
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofFrance
The Comtat Venaissin ( French pronunciation: [kɔ̃ta vənɛsɛ̃]; Occitan: lo Comtat Venaicin; 'County of Venaissin'), often called the Comtat for short, was a part of the Papal States from 1274 to 1791, in what is now the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southern France.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Comtat Venaissin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.