Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes (; ca, Caudiers de Fenollet; oc, Caudièrs de Fenolhet) is a

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in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern

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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

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Toponymy

The name of the town in

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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

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, and may refer to nearby

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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

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