Quercy
Sign in to saveQuercy (; , locally ) is a former province of France located in the country's southwest, bounded on the north by Limousin, on the west by Périgord and Agenais, on the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and on the east by Rouergue and Auvergne.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Quercy
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Natural region
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Lacave-Chateau Belcastel.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- The chateau in Lacave
- Settlement.image_shield
- Blason département fr Lot.svg
- Settlement.shield_alt
- Coat of arms of the lordship of Quercy
- Settlement.image_map
- Carte du Quercy.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Map of the old province of Quercy, France, showing the communes according to the current administrative division.
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
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- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Countries
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- France
- Settlement.population_density_km2
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical province of France
- Part of
- Guyenne
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Capital
- Cahors
- Image
- Montauban - La Place Nationale.jpg
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- native label
- Carcin
- Commons category
- Quercy
- topic's main category
- Category:Quercy
- inception
- 0849-00-00
- language used
- Occitan
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1790-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Español
Quercy, en occitano, Carcin, se pronuncia: karˈsi, kɔrˈʃi, fue una provincia de Francia durante el Antiguo Régimen con capital en Cahors, la antigua ciudad de Cadurques o Cadurci, que se extendía por los territorios de Souillac a Montauban, pasando por Figeac.
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Gallery (2)
On the map
3 mapped locations