Gascony
Gascony was a province of the southwestern Kingdom of France that succeeded the Duchy of Gascony. From the 17th century until the French Revolution, it was part of the combined Province of Guyenne and Gascony.
- Type: Region with 1,920,000 residents
- Description: former French territory
- Also known as: “Ducado de Gascuña”, “Ducat de Gasconha”, “duché de Gascogne”, “Dugiaeth Gasgwyn”, “Gascogna”, “Gascoña”, “Gasconje”, “Gascons”, “Gasconya”, “Gaskoina”, “Gaskónsko”, “Gaskuina”, “Gwasgwyn”, “Ґасконь”, “גאסקון”, “גאסקוניה”, “גסקון”, “גסקוני”, “غاسكونيا”, “غاسكونية”, “غسقونية”, “गेस्कनी”, “กาสกอญ”, “กาสคอญ”, “กาสโคนี”, “ガスコニア”, and “加斯科尼”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Château de Bazian and Église Saint-Orens de Laas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bazian and Caillavet.
Gascony
- Categories: historical province of France, cultural region, regions of Occitania, and locality
- Location: Occitanie, France, Europe
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Latitude
43.6667° or 43° 40′ north
Longitude
0.3333° or 0° 20′ east
Population
1,920,000
Elevation
184 metres (604 feet)
Open location code
8FM2M88M+M8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Gascony” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غشكونية”
- Aragonese: “Gascunya”
- Armenian: “Գասկոն”
- Arpitan: “Gascogne”
- Asturian: “Gascuña”
- Azerbaijani: “Qaskoniya”
- Basque: “Gaskoinia”
- Basque: “Kaskoina”
- Belarusian: “Гасконь”
- Breton: “Gwaskogn”
- Bulgarian: “Гаскония”
- Catalan: “Gascunya”
- Chinese: “加斯科涅”
- Corsican: “Guascogna”
- Croatian: “Gaskonja”
- Czech: “Gaskoňsko”
- Danish: “Gascogne”
- Dutch: “Gascogne”
- Esperanto: “Gaskonio”
- Finnish: “Gascogne”
- French: “Gascogne”
- Friulian: “Gasconie”
- Galician: “Gascuña”
- Georgian: “გასკონი”
- German: “Gascogne”
- Greek: “Γασκώνη”
- Hebrew: “גסקוניה”
- Hindi: “गेस्कॉनी”
- Hungarian: “Gascogne”
- Ido: “Gaskonia”
- Indonesian: “Gaskonia”
- Irish: “Gascogne”
- Italian: “Guascogna”
- Japanese: “ガスコーニュ”
- Kirghiz: “Гаскония”
- Korean: “가스코뉴”
- Kurdish: “Gaskonya”
- Latin: “Wasconia”
- Latvian: “Gaskoņa”
- Lithuanian: “Gaskonė”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gascogne”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gascogne”
- Norwegian: “Gascogne”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gasconha”
- Ossetian: “Гасконь”
- Persian: “گسکونی”
- Polish: “Gaskonia”
- Portuguese: “Gasconha”
- Romanian: “Gasconia”
- Russian: “Гасконь”
- Serbian: “Гаскоња”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gaskonja”
- Sicilian: “Gascògna”
- Slovak: “Gaskonsko”
- Slovenian: “Gaskonja”
- Spanish: “Gascuña”
- Swedish: “Gascogne”
- Tagalog: “Gascuña”
- Tajik: “Гасконӣ”
- Thai: “กัสกอญ”
- Turkish: “Gaskonya”
- Ukrainian: “Гасконь”
- Venetian: “Vascogna”
- Vietnamese: “Gascogne”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gascogne”
- Welsh: “Gasgwyn”
- Western Frisian: “Gaskonje”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Bidot and Pisson.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Cimetière de Bazian and War memorial of Bazian.
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