Editing Rouergue

{{Short description|Former province of France}}
[[Image:Blason comtes de Rodez.svg|thumb|125px|Coat of arms of the county of Rouergue]]
[[File:Carte du Rouergue.svg|thumb|Map of Rouergue, showing modern departments: [[Aveyron]], [[Lot (department)|Lot]] and [[Tarn-et-Garonne]]]]
'''Rouergue''' ({{IPA|fr|ʁwɛʁɡ|lang}}; {{langx|oc|Roergue}} {{IPA|oc|ruˈeɾɣe|}}) is a former [[province of France]], corresponding roughly with the modern [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Aveyron]]. Its historical capital is [[Rodez]].<ref>[http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/autre-region/Rouergue/141610 Rouergue] at the [[Grand Larousse encyclopédique|Larousse online encyclopedia]]</ref> It is bounded on the north by [[History of Auvergne|Auvergne]], on the south and southwest by [[Languedoc]], on the east by [[Gévaudan]] and on the west by [[Quercy]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Rouergue |volume=23 |page=770}}</ref>

During the [[Middle Ages]] Rouergue changed hands a number of times; its rulers included England (due to the [[Treaty of Brétigny]] in 1360), [[Armagnac (party)|Armagnac]] and Languedoc.

Rouergue became a [[Departments of France|department]] in 1790, and was renamed [[Aveyron]] after the principal river flowing through it. Upon creation of the department of [[Tarn-et-Garonne]] in 1808, the [[canton of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val]] was detached from the western extremity of Aveyron and transferred to the new department.

The province of Rouergue had a land area of {{cvt|9007|km2}}. At the 1999 census there were 269,774 inhabitants on the territory of the province of Rouergue, for a density of only {{cvt|30|km2}}. The largest urban areas are Rodez, with 38,458 inhabitants in 1999; [[Millau]], with 22,840 inhabitants in 1999; [[Decazeville]], with 17,044 inhabitants in 1999; and [[Villefranche-de-Rouergue]], with 12,561 inhabitants in 1999.

==See also==
*[[Count of Rouergue]]
*[[Count of Toulouse]]

==References==
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[[Category:Guyenne]]
[[Category:Geography of Aveyron]]
[[Category:Geography of Lot (department)]]
[[Category:Geography of Tarn-et-Garonne]]
[[Category:History of Occitania (administrative region)]]
[[Category:History of Aveyron]]
[[Category:History of Lot (department)]]
[[Category:History of Tarn-et-Garonne]]