Rosselló () or Roussillon () is a
historical and cultural Catalan comarca (county) of
Northern Catalonia
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(
France
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). Its capital and most populated city is
Perpignan
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(Catalan: ''Perpinyà'').
It borders the counties of
Alt Empordà
Alt Empordà (; ; "Upper Empordà") is a Comarques of Catalonia, comarca (county) located in the Comarques Gironines, Girona region, in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of two comarques into which Empordà was divided by the comarca division of Catalo ...
(
Southern Catalonia
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) and
Vallespir
Vallespir (; ) is a historical Catalan comarca in Northern Catalonia, part of the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
Geography
The capital of the comarca is Ceret, and it borders the comarques of Conflent, Rosselló, Alt Empordà ...
to the south and
Conflent to the west, as well as the
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region of
Languedoc
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Most of its territory is now contained in the modern-day region of Occitanie in Southern France. Its capital city was Toulouse. It had an area of approximately .
History
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to the north and north-west.
Rosselló has an area of 1,498 km². In 1990, Rosselló had a
population
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of 303,850 inhabitants, with a density of 202.8 people per km².
It comprises part of the
historic county and province of
Roussillon
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.
See also
*
Counts of Roussillon
External links
El Rosselló''in Catalan Encyclopaedia.''
Geography of Pyrénées-Orientales
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