Gévaudan
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Gévaudan (; ) is a historical area of France in Lozère département. It took its name from the Gabali, a Gallic tribe.
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- County of Gévaudan
- Country.common_name
- Gevaudan
- Country.era
- Middle Ages
- Country.government_type
- Monarchy
- Country.year_start
- 1096
- Country.year_end
- 1790
- Country.p1
- County of Toulouse
- Country.s1
- Kingdom of France
- Country.image_coat
- Blason province fr Gevaudan.svg
- Country.image_map
- Lozère-Position.svg
- Country.image_map_caption
- In red, the modern territory of Lozère within France
- Country.capital
- Javols
- Country.common_languages
- Occitan, French
- Country.religion
- Roman Catholicism, Calvinism
- Country.today
- France
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county
- Part of
- Languedoc
- Has part
- Margeride
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Lozère
- Capital
- Mende
- Image
- Mende-place-republique-1.JPG
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- inception
- 1096-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1790-01-01
- native label
- Comté de Gévaudan
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Middle Ages
- Modern period
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
Gévaudan (; ) is a historical area of France in Lozère département. It took its name from the Gabali, a Gallic tribe.
== History == After the conquest of Gaul, the Romans preserved the capital city of the Gabali, Anderitum, which they renamed Gabalum (modern Javols).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gévaudan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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