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

Pyrénées-Orientales Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. ...

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in southern France.

Geography

Localisation

Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes is located in the canton of La Vallée de l'Agly and in the arrondissement of Perpignan. Map commune FR insee code 66046

Toponymy

The name of the town in Occitan 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, and may refer to nearby pit caves 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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