Europe · The early medieval west
County of Rouergue
drawn on the map AD 990–1065
Comté de Rouergue; Occitan Roergue; capital Rodez. An Occitan county long attached to the counts of Toulouse and then to the counts of Rodez/Armagnac.
- Shown on the map
- AD 990–1065
- Peak area
- 28k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Comté de Rouergue; Occitan Roergue; capital Rodez. An Occitan county long attached to the counts of Toulouse and then to the counts of Rodez/Armagnac. Its history follows those of Toulouse and Armagnac; it was drawn into the royal domain in stages following the Albigensian settlement and the fall of Armagnac.
Common questions
- What was the County of Rouergue?
- Comté de Rouergue; Occitan Roergue; capital Rodez. An Occitan county long attached to the counts of Toulouse and then to the counts of Rodez/Armagnac.
- When is the County of Rouergue shown on the map?
- The border data draws the County of Rouergue AD 990–1065. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
- How large was the County of Rouergue?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the County of Rouergue covered about 28,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each territory as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica and specialist snippets, and flags entries built on unreliable foundations — the 911 treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte known only from Dudo of Saint-Quentin, and Arnaud Amalric's alleged order at Béziers attested only decades after the fact. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Rouergue en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouergue
This entry was last updated .
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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