''Comte'' is the French, Catalan and Occitan form of the word "count" (Latin: ''comes''); ''comté'' is the Gallo-Romance form of the word "county" (Latin: ''comitatus'').
Comte or Comté may refer to:
* ''Comte'', French for a
count
Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: ...
(i.e. the nobleman)
* ''Comté'', a
county
A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
in France (territory ruled by a count)
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La Comté, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France
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Comté cheese
Comté () is a List of French cheeses, French cheese made from unpasteurized cow's milk in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France bordering Switzerland and sharing much of its cuisine. Comté has the highest production of all French Appella ...
, a cheese from Franche-Comté, eastern France
People with the surname
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Alfred Comte (1895–1965), Swiss aviation pioneer
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Auguste Comte
Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (; ; 19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher, mathematician and writer who formulated the doctrine of positivism. He is often regarded as the first philosopher of science in the ...
(1798–1857), French philosopher
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Charles Comte (1782–1837), French lawyer, journalist and political writer
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Claudine le Comte (born 1950), Belgian fencer
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Fabienne Comte, French statistician
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Fernando Compte (1930–2013), founder and first president of the International Sambo Federation
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Ferran Soriano i Compte (born 1967), Spanish CEO of various football clubs, including Manchester City F.C.
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Harry Comte
William Henry James Comte (10 March 1909 – 30 May 1945) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and Sandringham in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) during the 1930s.
He fo ...
(1909—1945), Australian rules footballer
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Louis Comte (1788–1859), French magician
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Maurice Compte (born 1969), American actor
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Pere Compte (died 1506), Spanish Catalan architect
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Raphaël Comte
Raphaël Comte (; born 28 September 1979) is a Swiss lawyer and politician. He has served as a member of the Council of States (Switzerland), Council of States from 1 March 2010 to 1 December 2019, and was its president from 2015 to 2016.
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(born 1979), Swiss politician
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Vicomte
A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. The status and any domain held by a viscount is a viscounty.
In the case of French viscounts, the title is s ...
, the French equivalent of a viscount
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Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou dialect, Frainc-Comtou: ''Fraintche-Comtè''; ; also ; ; all ) is a cultural and Provinces of France, historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of France, departments of Doub ...
, a traditional province of eastern France
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Conde (disambiguation)
Conde is the Ibero-Romance form of "count" (Latin ''comitatus'').
It may refer to:
* Counts in Iberia
*List of countships in Portugal
Places United States
* Conde, South Dakota, a city
France
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, the Spanish, Portuguese and Galician term for ''Count''
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Conte (disambiguation)
Conte may refer to:
* Conte (literature), a literary genre
* Conte (surname)
* Conté, a drawing medium
* Conte, Jura, town in France
* Conté royal family, a fictional family in Tamora Pierce's Tortallan world
* Conte, the title of Count
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, the Italian term for ''Count''
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Le Compte (disambiguation)
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