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The history of Toulouse, in Occitania, southern France, traces back to ancient times. After Roman rule, the city was ruled by the Visigoths and Merovingian and Carolingian Franks . Capital of the County of Toulouse during the Middle Ages , today it is the capital of the Midi-Pyrénées region.
250 - Martyrdom of Saint Saturnin, first bishop of Toulouse. 413 - Toulouse taken by forces of Visigoth Ataulf. [3] [4] 419 - Wallia makes Toulouse the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom. [3] [5] 439 - Battle of Toulouse (439) 458 - Battle of Toulouse (458) 508 - Clovis I in power. [3] 631 - Toulouse becomes capital of the Duchy of Aquitaine. [6]
Toulouse (/ t uː ˈ l uː z /, too-LOOZ; [4] French: ⓘ; Occitan: Tolosa) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania.The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres (93 miles) from the Mediterranean Sea, 230 km (143 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean and 680 km (420 mi) from Paris.
Français : Carte de Toulouse, 31000, France English: Map of Toulouse, 31000, France This map of Toulouse was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community.
The borders of the department follow the river. The Garonne enters France from Spain at the town of Fos, and goes through Toulouse and leaves the department. The extreme south of the department lies in the Pyrenees mountain range and is very mountainous. The highest elevation is the Peak of Perdiguère, at 3,222 meters (10,571 feet) above sea ...
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Toulouse and Montpellier are also common places for business congresses and conventions. [citation needed] In April 2019, The Guardian's travel section included two Languedoc locations in its list of 20 of the most beautiful villages in France. The two were Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert with "one of the finest examples of Romanesque architecture in ...
The county of Toulouse took its definite shape, from Toulouse in the west to the Rhone River in the east, a unity that would survive until the French Revolution as the province of Languedoc. Toulouse would never again be part of the Aquitaine polity, whose capital in later times would become Poitiers, then Bordeaux. Count William was the first ...