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Hautes-Pyrénées

Also known as Hautes-Pyrenees

Hautes-Pyrénées (; Gascon/Occitan: Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus ['awts piɾeˈnɛʊs]; ; ['alts piɾiˈneʊs]; ) is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France. The department is bordered by Pyrénées-Atlantiques to the west, Gers to the north, Haute-Garonne to the east, as well by the Spanish province of Huesca in the autonomous community of Aragon to the south. In 2023, its population was 231,349; its prefecture is Tarbes. It is named after the Pyrenees mountain range.

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Hautes-Pyrénées is a department (administrative division) in southwestern France, located in the Occitania region and bordered by Spain to the south. Named after the Pyrenees mountains, it has a population of about 231,000 people and is governed from its main city, Tarbes.

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Settlement.name: Hautes-Pyrénées
Settlement.native_name_lang: fr
Settlement.type: Department of France
Settlement.image_skyline: Préfecture des Hautes-Pyrénées.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Prefecture building in Tarbes
Settlement.image_flag: Proposed flag for Hautes-Pyrénées.svg
Settlement.image_shield: Blason dpt fr HautesPyrenees.svg
Settlement.image_map: Hautes-Pyrénées-Position.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Hautes-Pyrénées in France
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: France
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Occitania
Settlement.seat_type: Prefecture
Settlement.seat: Tarbes
Settlement.parts_type: Subprefectures
Settlement.parts_style: para
Settlement.p1: Argelès-GazostBagnères-de-Bigorre

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Instance of: department of France
Named after: Pyrenees
Official name: Hautes-Pyrénées
Country: France
Located in: Midi-Pyrénées
Contains: Pouzac
Capital: Tarbes
Population: 231349
Area: 4464
Time zone: UTC+01:00
Shares border with: Huesca Province
Highest point: Vignemale
Official website: www.hautes-pyrenees.gouv.fr
Image: Sers et Betpouey 65 vus de StJustin 2011.jpg

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topic's main category: Category:Hautes-Pyrénées
category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Hautes-Pyrénées
Commons category: Hautes-Pyrénées
inception: 1790-03-04
Commons gallery: Hautes-Pyrénées
category for people born here: Category:Births in Hautes-Pyrénées
category for films shot at this location: Category:Films shot in Hautes-Pyrénées
category of associated people: Category:People from Hautes-Pyrénées
annual number of weddings: 503
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
Geography
Principal towns
Demographics
Politics
Current National Assembly Representatives
Tourism
See also
References
External links

==History== Historically the area broadly covered by the département known as Bigorre, a territory at times independent but later part of Gascony province. Large parts of the area were held by the English after the Treaty of Brétigny, 1360. In the 16th century, it was part of the Huguenot domain of the monarchs of Navarre, brought to France by Henri IV. For its early history, see Bigorre and Gascony.

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