Sort () is the capital of the ''
comarca
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'' of
Pallars Sobirà, in the province of
Lleida
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,
Catalonia
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, in the country of
Spain
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. It is located at 692 metres above the sea, by the river
Noguera Pallaresa, a tributary to the
Segre. It has a population of .
It was once capital of the
County of Pallars The County of Pallars or Pallás (, ; ) was a ''de facto'' independent petty state, nominally within the Carolingian Empire and then West Francia during the ninth and tenth centuries, perhaps one of the Catalan counties, originally part of the Marca ...
.
The origin of the name predates the Roman period and has a different origin from the concept of ''sort'' -Catalan for “luck”-. Sort is a toponym of Basque origin, from the word sort, or suert, which meant bridge, referring to the only important bridge that crossed the Noguera Pallaresa river.
The municipality includes the small village of
Olp.
References
External links
Pallars Sobirà Official websitePallars Sobirà TourismGovernment data pages
Municipalities in Pallars Sobirà
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