Hautes-Pyrénées
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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- Principal towns
- Demographics
- Politics
- Current National Assembly Representatives
- Tourism
- See also
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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.
==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.