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Encyclopedia > Mauguio
Mauguio
Country      France
Région Languedoc-Roussillon
Département Hérault
Arrondissement Montpellier
Canton Mauguio
INSEE Code 34154
Postal code 34130
Mayor
Term of office
Yvon Pradeille
2001-2007
Intercommunality Communauté de communes
du Pays de l'Or
Longitude 04° 00' 30" E
Latitude 43° 37' 01" N
Altitude average: 3 m
minimum: 0 m
maximum: 51 m
Area 112.25 km²
Population without
double-counting
14,974 (1999)
Population density 133.4 pers/km²

Mauguio is a commune of the Hérault département, in southern France. Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ... France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common... Capital Montpellier Land area¹ 27,376 km² Regional President Georges Frêche (PS) (since 2004) Population  - Jan. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ... Hérault is a département in the southwest of France named after the Hérault River. ... The 100 French départements are divided into 342 arrondissements. ... The canton is an administrative division of France. ... INSEE is the French abbreviation for the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (French: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques). ... A postal code is a series of letters and/or digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. ... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2007 (MMVII) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Map of Earth showing lines of longitude, which appear curved and vertical in this projection, but are actually halves of great circles Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... Latitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, meaning a gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... Hérault is a département in the southwest of France named after the Hérault River. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties. ...


Melguelh is the Occitan name of a French town named Melgueil in French language (today's Mauguio). Melgueil is in Southern France, in the old region of Septimania. Occitan, or langue doc is a Romance language, or a set of Romance languages, spoken mainly in southern France. ... Septimania was the western region of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis that passed under the control of the Visigothic kingdom in 462, when Septimania was ceded to Theodoric II, king of the Visigoths. ...


County

Melguelh was an old county from the era of the Visigoths. The Visigoths, originally Tervingi, or Vesi (the noble ones), one of the two main branches of the Goths (of which the Ostrogothi were the other), were one of the loosely-termed Germanic peoples that disturbed the late Roman Empire. ...


List of counts:

  • Aigulf I c. 750
  • Amic I  ? -778 (son of Aigulf)
  • Robert I 778-?
  • Adolf I  ?-?
  • Ernest I  ?-?
  • Eberard I  ? -812
  • same rulers as Barcelona 812-878
  • Guillermona c. 878-920 (married with Robert of Magalona)
  • Bernard I c. 920-930 (son of Guillermona)
  • Berenguer I c. 930-950 (son of Bernard I)
  • Bernard II c. 950-988 (son of Berenguer I)
  • No name know c. 988-989 (son of Bernard II, name unknown)
  • Bernard III c. 989-1055 (son of the "no name know" count)
  • Ramón I c. 1055-1079 (son of Bernard III)
  • Pere I 1079-? (son of Ramón I)
  • Ramón II  ?-1120 (son of Pere I)
  • Bernard IV 1120-? (son of Ramón II)
  • Beatriu c. 1130-1190 (daughter of Bernard IV)
  • Guillem 1130-1135 (regent, lord of Montpellier)
  • Berenguer Ramón I 1135-1144 (count of Provencea married with Beatriu)
  • Bernard V Pelet 1146-1170 (lLord of Ales, married with Beatriu)
  • Ramón Berenguer I 1170-1190 (son of Beatriu, associated 1170; count of Provence)
  • Ermessenda 1170-1190 (daughter of Beatriu, heir 1170; half county 1172-73)
  • Pere Bermon 1170-1172 (lord of Anduze, married with Ermessenda)
  • Bertran I 1172 (son of Beatriu, brother of Ermessenda)
  • Alphonse I of Aragón 1172 (by cession from Bertran I)
  • Dolça of Provenza 1172-1173 (daughter of Ramón Berenguer I; half county)
  • Ramón III 1173-1190 (Ramón or Raymond VI of Tolosa, married with Ermesenda; full county)

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Events March 16 - Massacre and mass-suicide of the Jews of York, England prompted by Crusaders and Richard Malebys kill 150-500 Jews in Cliffords Tower June 10 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem. ... Events February 13 - Innocent II is elected pope An antipope schism occurs when Roger II of Sicily supports Anacletus II as pope instead of Innocent II. Innocent flees to France and Anacletus crowns Roger King. ... Events January - Byland Abbey founded Stephen of Blois succeeds King Henry I. Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I and widow of Henry V opposed Stephen and claims the throne as her own Owain Gwynedd of Wales defeats the Normans at Crug Mawr. ... Events January - Byland Abbey founded Stephen of Blois succeeds King Henry I. Empress Maud, daughter of Henry I and widow of Henry V opposed Stephen and claims the throne as her own Owain Gwynedd of Wales defeats the Normans at Crug Mawr. ... 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Events March 16 - Massacre and mass-suicide of the Jews of York, England prompted by Crusaders and Richard Malebys kill 150-500 Jews in Cliffords Tower June 10 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem. ... Events December 29: Assassination of Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Canterbury cathedral Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the court of Henry II because of a string of infidelities. ... Events March 16 - Massacre and mass-suicide of the Jews of York, England prompted by Crusaders and Richard Malebys kill 150-500 Jews in Cliffords Tower June 10 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowned in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem. ... Events December 29: Assassination of Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Canterbury cathedral Eleanor of Aquitaine leaves the court of Henry II because of a string of infidelities. ... Events Duke Richard of Aquitaine becomes Duke of Poitiers. ... 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