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Pyrénées-Orientales (French: [piʁene ɔʁjɑ̃tal] ⓘ; Catalan: Pirineus Orientals [piɾiˈnɛwz uɾiənˈtals]; Occitan: Pirenèus Orientals [piɾeˈnɛwz uɾjenˈtals]; lit. ' Eastern Pyrenees ' ), also known as Northern Catalonia , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] are a department of the region of Occitania , Southern France , adjacent to the northern ...
The Hôtel Pams is a mansion in Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France. It was built between 1852 and 1872 by Pierre Bardou, one of the founders of the JOB cigarette paper company, then transformed in the 1890s into an elegant mansion by his son-in-law Jules Pams, a politician and amateur art-lover. It illustrates the artistic taste of the ...
Tourist attractions in Pyrénées-Orientales (6 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Pyrénées-Orientales" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
The Cévennes-Languedoc-Roussillon region of the United Protestant Church includes Gard, Lozère, Hérault, Aude, Pyrénées-Orientales as well as the eastern part of Aveyron. [23] It is an important region by its Protestant population (approximately 20,000 homes), but one of the least extensive of the United Protestant Church of France. [ 23 ]
The 3 arrondissements of the Pyrénées-Orientales department are: [1] Arrondissement of Céret, (subprefecture: Céret) with 64 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 134,629 in 2021. Arrondissement of Perpignan, (prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department: Perpignan) with 39 communes. The population of the arrondissement ...
The following is a list of the 17 cantons of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: [1] Les Aspres Le Canigou
The Pyrénées-Orientales department is composed of 226 communes.. Most of the territory (except for the district of Fenolheda) formed a part of the Principality of Catalonia until 1659, and Catalan is still spoken (in addition to French) by a significant minority of the population.
The name of the village is attested in the form Hur as early as 839 AD, and is of pre-Indo-European origin, coming from the Ur-Or-Ar root - quite common in the Pyrenees - which designates a place where there is a spring or a river; the pre-Celtic root *Ur-still means "water" in Basque.