Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes (; ca, Caudiers de Fenollet; oc, Caudièrs de Fenolhet) is a
commune
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in the
Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern
France
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Geography
Localisation
Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes is located in the
canton of La Vallée de l'Agly The canton of La Vallée de l'Agly is an administrative division of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, in southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Rivesaltes.
It ...
and in the
arrondissement of Perpignan
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Toponymy
The name of the town in
Occitan Occitan may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania territory in parts of France, Italy, Monaco and Spain.
* Something of, from, or related to the Occitania administrative region of France.
* Occitan language, spoken in parts o ...
is ''Caudiers de Fenolledès'' (historical form), ''de Fenolhedés'' (normalized form) or ''de Fenolhet'' (by similarity with other nearby communes).
[Lluís Basseda, Toponymie historique de Catalunya Nord, t. 1, Prades, Revista Terra Nostra, 1990, 796 p.]
The name first appears in 1011 as ''Caldarios''. It is then written as ''Cauders'' in the 14th century, and then ''Caudies'' from the 15th to the 17th centuries, and then as ''Caudiers'' or ''Caudiès'' in modern Occitan.
In French, the official name is ''Caudiès'' in 1790, when the village becomes a commune, even though the names of ''Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes'' or ''Caudiès-de-Saint-Paul'' were already in use.
[Jean-Pierre Pélissier, Paroisses et communes de France : dictionnaire d'histoire administrative et démographique, vol. 66 : Pyrénées-Orientales, Paris, CNRS, 1986] ''Caudiès-de-Saint-Paul'' is used until the end of the 19th century,
but the town officially changes its name on 31 January 1898 to ''Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes'', still in use nowadays.
The name comes from the Latin ''caldarius'', meaning ''cauldron'', as can be seen on the local
coat of arms
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, and may refer to nearby
pit cave
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s around the river Boulzane.
Population
Sites of interest
* The church of Our Lady of Laval.
* The ruins of the castle of Castel Fizel.
* The curious bridge of the Saint-Louis
pass
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See also
*
Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department
The Pyrénées-Orientales department is composed of 226 communes.
Most of the territory (except for the district of Fenolheda) formed part of the Principality of Catalonia until 1659, and Catalan is still spoken (in addition to French) by a ...
References
Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales
Fenouillèdes
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