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Encyclopedia > Alt Urgell
Alt Urgell
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Other Catalan comarques
Province Lleida
Capital Seu d'Urgell
Largest city Seu d'Urgell
Demonym  
Population (2001) 19,105 hab.
Area 1,446.9 km2
Pop. density 13.2 hab/km2
Municipalities 19

Alt Urgell is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, a modern representation of part of the historic county of Urgell (ca 789 - 1413), seat of the Counts of Urgell.


Municipalities

Populations are as of 2001.

  • Alàs i Cerc - pop. 396
  • Arsèguel - pop. 98
  • Bassella - pop. 265
  • Cabó - pop. 115
  • Cava - pop. 54
  • Coll de Nargó - pop. 577
  • Estamariu - pop. 125
  • Fígols i Alinyà - pop. 275
  • Josa i Tuixén - pop. 181
  • Montferrer i Castellbò - pop. 766
  • Oliana - pop. 1872
  • Organyà - pop. 954
  • Peramola - pop. 385
  • Pont de Bar - pop. 153
  • Ribera d'Urgellet - pop. 829
  • La Seu d'Urgell - pop. 11726; seat of the Bishop of Urgell
  • Valls d'Aguilar - pop. 332
  • Valls de Valira - pop. 803
  • Vansa i Fórnols - pop. 200

External links

  • Official page of the Consell Comarcal de l'Alt Urgell, in Catalan (http://alturgell.ddl.net/)
  • Palau Robert unofficial Alt Urgell page, in Catalan (http://www.gencat.net/probert/comarca/alt_urgell.htm)
  • Diputació de Lleida official page about Alt Urgell, in Catalan (http://cat.lleida.com/comarca/index.html?comarca=5)


 
Comarques of Catalonia
Alt Camp | Alt Empordà | Alt Penedès | Alt Urgell | Alta Ribagorça | Anoia | Bages | Baix Camp | Baix Ebre | Baix Empordà | Baix Llobregat | Baix Penedès | Baixa Cerdanya | Barcelonès | Berguedà | Conca de Barberà | Garraf | Garrigues | Garrotxa | Gironès | Maresme | Montsià | Noguera | Osona | Pallars Jussà | Pallars Sobirà | Pla de l'Estany | Pla d'Urgell | Priorat | Ribera d'Ebre | Ripollès | Segarra | Segrià | Selva | Solsonès | Tarragonès | Terra Alta | Urgell | Val d'Aran | Vallès Occidental | Vallès Oriental
Historical Comarques
North Catalonia: Alta Cerdanya | Capcir | Conflent | Rosselló | Vallespir



  Results from FactBites:
 
Urgell (109 words)
Urgell is one of the historical Catalan counties, collindant with the county of Pallars and the county of Cerdanya.
Andorra was ceded to the bishop of La Seu d'Urgell by the count Ermengol IV of Urgell[?] in the 12th century.
The county of Urgell was extinguished after the revolt of the count James II of Urgell[?] against the king Ferdinand II of Aragon in 1413.
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