Lombers
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Commune of Lombers |
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| Location | |
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| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Midi-Pyrénées |
| Department | Tarn |
| Arrondissement | Albi |
| Canton | Réalmont |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes du Réalmontais |
| Statistics | |
| Elevation | 177 m–321 m (avg. 1,911 m) |
| Land area¹ | 38.79 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
856 |
| - Density | 22/km² (1999) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 81147/ 81120 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Lombers is a village and commune in the French département of Tarn, a part of the ancient Languedoc province and the present-day Midi-Pyrénées région.
[edit] History
Lombers was a significant centre of Catharism in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. It was the location of a Catholic-Cathar debate, perhaps in the 1180s, between Guillaume Peyre de Brens, Catholic bishop of Albi, and Sicard le Cellerier, Cathar bishop of Albi; Sicard lived at Lombers.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Duvernoy, Jean, editor (1976), written at Paris, Guillaume de Puylaurens, Chronique 1145-1275: Chronica magistri Guillelmi de Podio Laurentii, CNRS, ISBN 2910352064 pp. 40-43.
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