Organyà
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thumb|250px|Organya, July 2007. Organyà () is a municipality in the comarca of the Alt Urgell in Catalonia. It is situated on the right bank of the Segre river below the Trespons gorge, and is served by the C-14 road between Ponts and La Seu d'Urgell. There is a monument to the ''Homilies d'Organyà'', a 12th or 13th century collection of sermons which is the oldest literary text in the Catalan language to survive in its entirety, discovered in the town in 1904. It has a population of .
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- Organyà
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- Municipality
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- Organyà
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- Spain Province of Lleida#Spain Catalonia#Spain
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- Location in Catalonia
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- Community
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- Province
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- Lleida
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- Comarca
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- Alt Urgell
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- Mayor
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- Cel·lestí Vilà Betriu (2015)
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- 12.5
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- 558
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thumb|250px|Organya, July 2007. Organyà () is a municipality in the comarca of the Alt Urgell in Catalonia. It is situated on the right bank of the Segre river below the Trespons gorge, and is served by the C-14 road between Ponts and La Seu d'Urgell. There is a monument to the ''Homilies d'Organyà, a 12th or 13th century collection of sermons which is the oldest literary text in the Catalan language to survive in its entirety, discovered in the town in 1904. It has a population of .
Organyà is the birthplace of Rosa Florentina Eroles (1815-1864), the mother of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. The municipality surrounds an exclave of Cabó.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Organyà” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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