Llívia is a town of Cerdagne, located in the Catalan comarca of Baixa Cerdanya, province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain, that forms a Spanish exclave surrounded by French territory (Pyrénées-Orientales département). Alta Cerdanya or French Cerdanya (French Cerdagne) is an alternative name for the portion of historical Cerdanya, south of the top crest of the Pyrenees, that was ceded to the French crown by the Treaty of the Pyrenees (France and for this reason was chosen as the place to build... This is a list of the comarques (singular comarca) of Catalonia. ... Baixa Cerdanya is a comarca (county) in northern Catalonia, in the France and with the principality of Andorra. ... Categories: Spain geography stubs | Catalonia | Provinces of Spain ... Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. ... D is Bs exclave, but is not an enclave. ... Pyrénées-Orientales (Eastern Pyrenees) is a département of southern France adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ...

Llívia, which was the site of an Iberian oppidum commanding the region and was named Julia Libica by the Romans, was the ancient capital of Cerdagne in Antiquity, before being replaced by Hix (commune of Bourg-Madame, France) in the early Middle Ages. The Iberian language describes a linguistic group associated with the Iberian civilization (7th Century BC - 1st Century BC), formed in the eastern and south-eastern regions of the Iberian peninsula. ... To the Romans, an oppidum was the main settlement in any administrative area. ... Antiquity means ancient times, and may be used of any period before the Middle Ages. ... The commune is an administrative division of France. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ...

The Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) ceded the comarques of Roussillon, Conflent, Capcir, Vallespir, and Cerdagne (northern half of it) to the French crown. Llívia did not become part of the French kingdom as the treaty stipulated that only villages were to be ceded to France, and Llívia was considered a city and not a village due to its status as the ancient capital of Cerdagne. The Treaty of the Pyrenees was a treaty signed in 1659 to end the war between France and Spain that had begun in 1635 during the Thirty Years War. ... Events May 25 - Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief period of the republican government called the Commonwealth. ... Mount Canigó (2785m), a Catalan landmark Roussillon (Catalan Rosselló; Spanish Rossellón) is one of the historical Catalan Countries corresponding roughly to the present-day southern French département of Pyrénées-Orientales (Eastern Pyrenees). ... Conflent is a Catalan comarca in North Catalonia, and currently under French administration. ... Capcir is a catalan comarca, in North Catalonia, and presently under French administration. ... Vallespir is a Catalan comarca, in North Catalonia and currently under French administration. ... Alta Cerdanya or French Cerdanya (French Cerdagne) is an alternative name for the portion of historical Cerdanya, south of the top crest of the Pyrenees, that was ceded to the French crown by the Treaty of the Pyrenees (France and for this reason was chosen as the place to build...

External links

• Official Web Site of Llívia (http://www.llivia.com/)