Rouergue
Sign in to savethumb|125px|Coat of arms of the county of Rouergue thumb|Map of Rouergue, showing modern departments: Aveyron, Lot and [[Tarn-et-Garonne]] Rouergue (; ) is a former province of France, corresponding roughly with the modern department of Aveyron. Its historical capital is Rodez. It is bounded on the north by Auvergne, on the south and southwest by Languedoc, on the east by Gévaudan and on the west by Quercy.
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- Instance of
- historical province of France
- Part of
- Guyenne
- Has part
- Causse Comtal
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Aveyron
- Capital
- Rodez
- Image
- View of Rodez 24.jpg
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- Commons category
- Rouergue
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- native label
- Roergue
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thumb|125px|Coat of arms of the county of Rouergue thumb|Map of Rouergue, showing modern departments: Aveyron, Lot and [[Tarn-et-Garonne]] Rouergue (; ) is a former province of France, corresponding roughly with the modern department of Aveyron. Its historical capital is Rodez. It is bounded on the north by Auvergne, on the south and southwest by Languedoc, on the east by Gévaudan and on the west by Quercy.
During the Middle Ages Rouergue changed hands a number of times; its rulers included England (due to the Treaty of Brétigny in 1360), Armagnac and Languedoc.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rouergue” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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