La Sauvetat-de-Savères (; oc, La Sauvetat de Savèras) is a commune in the

Lot-et-Garonne Lot-et-Garonne (, oc, Òlt e Garona) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne, it had a population of 331,271 in 2019.department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

in south-western

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History

La Sauvetat-de-Savères was, in the 12th century, a

bastide Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the f ...

built up around a

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. From the jurisdiction of Puymirol in the 13th century, La-Sauvetat-de-Savères became chief town of the

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of the same name in the 14th. A garrison was placed there, in 1587, for keeping watch Puymirol. On August 16, 1589, Villars attacked four companies of

Laugnac Laugnac (; oc, Launhac) is a Commune (France) , commune in the southwest of France, located in the center of French department , department of Lot-et -Garonne (French region , region Nouvelle-Aquitaine). Small village also called "Capital of Lo ...

and Belzunce who had taken refuge there, and exerted reprisals on the city.

History

See also