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Midi-Pyrénées

Index Midi-Pyrénées

Midi-Pyrénées (Occitan: Miègjorn-Pirenèus or Mieidia-Pirenèus; Mediodía-Pirineos) is a former administrative region of France. [1]

105 relations: Agenais, Airbus, Albi, Alcatel-Lucent, Appellation d'origine contrôlée, Aquitaine, Aranese dialect, Ariège (department), Armagnac (province), Astarac, Atlantic Ocean, Auch, Aveyron, Basques, Béarnese dialect, Bigorre, Blagnac, Bordeaux, Bouches-du-Rhône, Cahors, Calandreta, Capgemini, Castres, Catalonia, Coat of arms, Colomiers, Comminges, Common Agricultural Policy, Communes of France, Count of Toulouse, County of Foix, Couserans, Denmark, Departments of France, Estates General of 1789, France, French language, French Revolution, Gascon language, Gascony, Gascony Show, Gers, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, Hinterland, History of Toulouse, Hyderabad State, IBM, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Intendant, ..., Jean-François Gravier, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre, Languedoc, Languedoc-Roussillon, Languedocien dialect, Lauragais, Lavedan, Lille, Limousin, Lot (department), Lourdes, Lyon, Marseille, Massif Central, Mediterranean Sea, Metropolitan France, Michel Joachim Marie Raymond, Middle Ages, Millau, Montauban, Montpellier, Muret, Nancy, France, Nantes, Nébouzan, Netherlands, Nizam of Hyderabad, Novempopulania, Occitan cross, Occitan language, Occitanie (administrative region), Orange S.A., Paris, Parlement, Provinces of France, Pyrenees, Quatre-Vallées, Quercy, Regions of France, Rhône-Alpes, Robert Bosch GmbH, Rodez, Roman province, Rouergue, Roussillon, Rugby union, Siemens, Socialist Party (France), Strasbourg, Tarbes, Tarn (department), Tarn-et-Garonne, Toulouse, Tournefeuille, Vassal. Expand index (55 more) »

Agenais

Agenais, or Agenois, was an ancient region that became a county (Old French: conté or cunté) of France, south of Périgord.

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Airbus

Airbus SE is a European corporation, registered in the Netherlands and trading shares in France, Germany and Spain.

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Albi

Albi (Albi) is a commune in southern France.

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Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent S.A. was a French global telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.

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Appellation d'origine contrôlée

The appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC;; "protected designation of origin") is the French certification granted to certain French geographical indications for wines, cheeses, butters, and other agricultural products, all under the auspices of the government bureau Institut national des appellations d'origine, now called Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité (INAO).

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Aquitaine

Aquitaine (Aquitània; Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Aguiéne), archaic Guyenne/Guienne (Occitan: Guiana) was a traditional region of France, and was an administrative region of France until 1 January 2016.

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Aranese dialect

Aranese (Aranés) is a standardized form of the Pyrenean Gascon variety of the Occitan language spoken in the Val d'Aran, in northwestern Catalonia close to the Spanish border with France, where it is one of the three official languages beside Catalan and Spanish.

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Ariège (department)

Ariège (Arièja) is a department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France named after the Ariège River.

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Armagnac (province)

The county of Armagnac (Gascon Armanhac), situated between the Adour and Garonne rivers in the lower foothills of the Pyrenées, is a historic county of the Duchy of Gascony, established in 601 in Aquitaine (now France).

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Astarac

Astarac is a region in Gascony, a county in the Middle Ages.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Auch

Auch (Gascon: Aush or Aux) is a commune in southwestern France.

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Aveyron

Aveyron (Avairon) is a department located in the north of the Occitanie region of southern France named after the Aveyron River.

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Basques

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Béarnese dialect

Béarnese is a dialect of Gascon spoken in Béarn (in the French department of the Pyrénées Atlantiques, in southwestern France).

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Bigorre

Bigorre (Gascon: Bigòrra) is a region in southwest France, historically an independent county and later a French province, located in the upper watershed of the Adour, on the northern slopes of the Pyrenees, part of the larger region known as Gascony.

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Blagnac

Blagnac (Blanhac) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Occitan: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

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Bouches-du-Rhône

Bouches-du-Rhône (Occitan: Bocas de Ròse, literally "Mouths of the Rhône") is a department in Southern France named after the mouth of the river Rhône.

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Cahors

Cahors (Caors) is the capital of the Lot department in south-western France.

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Calandreta

A Calandreta is a bilingual school in Occitania in the South of France where the Occitan language is taught alongside the French language.

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Capgemini

Capgemini SE is a French multinational professional services and business consulting corporation headquartered in Paris, France.

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Castres

Castres (Castras in the Languedocian dialect of Occitan) is a commune, and arrondissement capital in the Tarn department and Occitanie region in southern France.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya, Catalonha, Cataluña) is an autonomous community in Spain on the northeastern extremity of the Iberian Peninsula, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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Coat of arms

A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard.

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Colomiers

Colomiers is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.

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Comminges

The Comminges (Comminges; Gascon: Comenge) is an ancient region of southern France in the foothills of the Pyrenees, corresponding closely to the arrondissement of Saint-Gaudens in the department of Haute-Garonne.

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Common Agricultural Policy

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union.

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Communes of France

The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Count of Toulouse

The Count of Toulouse was the ruler of Toulouse during the 8th to 13th centuries.

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County of Foix

The County of Foix was an independent medieval fief in southern France, and later a province of France, whose territory corresponded roughly the eastern part of the modern département of Ariège (the western part of Ariège being Couserans).

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Couserans

Coat of arms of CouseransCouserans (Gascon: Coserans) is a small former province of France located in the Pyrenees mountains.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government below the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the commune.

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Estates General of 1789

The estates general was a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), and the commoners (Third Estate).

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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Gascon language

Gascon is a dialect of Occitan.

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Gascony

Gascony (Gascogne; Gascon: Gasconha; Gaskoinia) is an area of southwest France that was part of the "Province of Guyenne and Gascony" prior to the French Revolution.

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Gascony Show

The Gascony Show is an English-language radio chat show aired in the southwest of France and a flagship Sunday evening programme broadcast on Radio Coteaux By Patrick Martinez, Radio Coteaux in the Gascony region.

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Gers

The Gers is a department in the Occitanie region in the southwest of France named after the Gers River.

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Haute-Garonne

Haute-Garonne (Nauta Garona; Upper Garonne) is a department in the southwest of France named after the Garonne river.

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Hautes-Pyrénées

Hautes-Pyrénées (Gascon/Occitan: Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus; Altos Pirineos; Alts Pirineus) is a department in southwestern France.

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Hinterland

Hinterland is a German word meaning "the land behind" (a city, a port, or similar).

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History of Toulouse

The history of Toulouse, in Midi-Pyrénées, southern France, traces back to ancient times.

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Hyderabad State

Hyderabad State was an Indian princely state located in the south-central region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad.

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IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

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Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques

The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques), abbreviated INSEE, is the national statistics bureau of France.

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Intendant

The title of intendant (intendant, Portuguese and intendente) has been used in several countries through history.

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Jean-François Gravier

Jean-François Gravier is a French geographer famous for his work Paris and the French Desert published in 1947, and republished in 1953 and 1972.

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Laboratoires Pierre Fabre

Laboratoires Pierre Fabre is a French multinational pharmaceutical and cosmetics company.

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Languedoc

Languedoc (Lengadòc) is a former province of France.

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Languedoc-Roussillon

Languedoc-Roussillon (Lengadòc-Rosselhon; Llenguadoc-Rosselló) is a former administrative region of France.

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Languedocien dialect

Languedocien (French name) or Lengadocian (native name) is an Occitan dialect spoken in rural parts of southern France such as Languedoc, Rouergue, Quercy, Agenais and Southern Périgord.

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Lauragais

The Lauragais is an area of southwestern France, south-east of Toulouse.

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Lavedan

The Lavedan (in gascon eth/lo Lavedan, /et/lu laβedã/), or occasionally vallées des Gaves, denotes a mountainous natural region of France, located at the heart of the Pyrénées, and forms a group of valleys upstream of Lourdes.

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Lille

Lille (Rijsel; Rysel) is a city at the northern tip of France, in French Flanders.

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Limousin

Limousin (Lemosin) is a former administrative region of France.

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Lot (department)

Lot (Òlt) is a department in the southwest of France named after the Lot River.

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Lourdes

Lourdes (Lorda in Occitan) is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees.

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Lyon

Lyon (Liyon), is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France.

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Marseille

Marseille (Provençal: Marselha), is the second-largest city of France and the largest city of the Provence historical region.

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Massif Central

The Massif Central (Massís Central) is a highland region in the middle of southern France, consisting of mountains and plateaus.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa and on the east by the Levant.

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Metropolitan France

Metropolitan France (France métropolitaine or la Métropole), also known as European France or Mainland France, is the part of France in Europe.

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Michel Joachim Marie Raymond

General Michel Joachim Marie Raymond (25 September 1755 – 25 March 1798), popularly known as Monsieur Raymond, was a French General in Nizam's military and the founder of Gunfoundry Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Millau

Millau (Milhau) is a commune in the Aveyron department in the French Occitanie region in southern France.

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Montauban

Montauban (Montalban) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.

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Montpellier

Montpellier (Montpelhièr) is a city in southern France.

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Muret

Muret (in Gascon Occitan Murèth) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the Occitanie region of southwestern France.

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Nancy, France

Nancy (Nanzig) is the capital of the north-eastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, and formerly the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, and then the French province of the same name.

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Nantes

Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt) is a city in western France on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast.

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Nébouzan

Nébouzan (Gascon: Nebosan) was a small province of France located in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains, in the southwest of France.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Nizam of Hyderabad

The Nizam of Hyderabad (Nizam-ul-Mulk, also known as Asaf Jah) was a monarch of the Hyderabad State, now divided into Telangana state, Hyderabad-Karnataka region of Karnataka and Marathwada region of Maharashtra.

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Novempopulania

Novempopulania (Latin for "country of the nine peoples") was one of the provinces created by Diocletian (Roman emperor from 284 to 305) out of Gallia Aquitania, being also called Aquitania Tertia.

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Occitan cross

The Occitan cross (also called cross of Occitania, cross of Languedoc, cross of Toulouse; heraldically cross cleché voided) is a heraldic cross, today chiefly used as a symbol of Occitania.

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Occitan language

Occitan, also known as lenga d'òc (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, is a Romance language.

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Occitanie (administrative region)

Occitanie (Occitània,, Occitània) is an administrative region of France that was created on 1 January 2016 from former French regions Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées.

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Orange S.A.

Orange S.A., formerly France Télécom S.A., is a French multinational telecommunications corporation.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Parlement

A parlement, in the Ancien Régime of France, was a provincial appellate court.

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Provinces of France

The Kingdom of France was organized into provinces until March 4, 1790, when the establishment of the department (French: département) system superseded provinces.

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Pyrenees

The Pyrenees (Pirineos, Pyrénées, Pirineus, Pirineus, Pirenèus, Pirinioak) is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between Spain and France.

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Quatre-Vallées

Quatre-Vallées (i.e. "Four Valleys") (Gascon: Quate-Vaths) was a small province of France located in the southwest of France.

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Quercy

Quercy (Carcin, 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.

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Regions of France

France is divided into 18 administrative regions (région), including 13 metropolitan regions and 5 overseas regions.

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Rhône-Alpes

Rhône-Alpes (Arpitan: Rôno-Arpes; Ròse-Aups; Rodano-Alpi) is a former administrative region of France.

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Robert Bosch GmbH

Robert Bosch GmbH, or Bosch, is a German multinational engineering and electronics company headquartered in Gerlingen, near Stuttgart, Germany.

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Rodez

Rodez is a small city and commune in the South of France, about 150 km northeast of Toulouse.

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Roman province

In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin: provincia, pl. provinciae) was the basic and, until the Tetrarchy (from 293 AD), the largest territorial and administrative unit of the empire's territorial possessions outside Italy.

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Rouergue

Rouergue is a former province of France, corresponding roughly with the modern department of Aveyron.

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Roussillon

Roussillon (or;; Rosselló, Occitan: Rosselhon) is one of the historical counties of the former Principality of Catalonia, corresponding roughly to the present-day southern French département of Pyrénées-Orientales (Eastern Pyrenees).

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Siemens

Siemens AG is a German conglomerate company headquartered in Berlin and Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad.

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Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste, PS) is a social-democratic political party in France, and the largest party of the French centre-left.

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Strasbourg

Strasbourg (Alsatian: Strossburi; Straßburg) is the capital and largest city of the Grand Est region of France and is the official seat of the European Parliament.

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Tarbes

Tarbes (Tarba) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France.

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Tarn (department)

Tarn is a French department located in the Occitanie region in the southwest of France named after the Tarn river.

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Tarn-et-Garonne

Tarn-et-Garonne (Occitan: Tarn e Garona) is a department in the southwest of France.

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Toulouse

Toulouse (Tolosa, Tolosa) is the capital of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the region of Occitanie.

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Tournefeuille

Tournefeuille (Languedocien: Tornafuèlha) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.

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Vassal

A vassal is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midi-Pyrénées

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