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Europe · The early medieval west

County of Roussillon

drawn on the map AD 896–1176

Comtat de Rosselló. A Visigothic-origin county around Ruscino (from 571; re-established under the Franks c. 759); capital moved to Perpignan.

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Shown on the map
AD 896–1176
Peak area
5k km²
Region
Europe

Names

Comtat de Rosselló. A Visigothic-origin county around Ruscino (from 571; re-established under the Franks c. 759); capital moved to Perpignan. United with Empúries 817–989, then a separate Bellonid line. The last independent count, Girard II, died without heirs in 1172, and Roussillon passed to Alfonso II of Aragon. It was later part of the Kingdom of Mallorca (1276–1344), and was definitively ceded to France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659).

Common questions

What was the County of Roussillon?
Comtat de Rosselló. A Visigothic-origin county around Ruscino (from 571; re-established under the Franks c. 759); capital moved to Perpignan.
When is the County of Roussillon shown on the map?
The border data draws the County of Roussillon AD 896–1176. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was the County of Roussillon?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the County of Roussillon covered about 5,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for al-Andalus, the taifas and the Christian kingdoms as the primary basis, with Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and academic work on the historiography of the Reconquista and the taifa period (García-Sanjuán). The article this entry is anchored on:

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Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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