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: “Gascogne” and “Gasconha”
Places of Interest
Highlights include 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
- View on OpenStreetMap
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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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Gascony” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غاسكونيا”
- Arabic: “غاسكونية”
- Arabic: “غسقونية”
- Arabic: “غشكونية”
- Aragonese: “Gascuña”
- Aragonese: “Gascunya”
- Armenian: “Գասկոն”
- Arpitan: “Gascogne”
- Asturian: “Gascogne”
- Asturian: “Gascuña”
- Azerbaijani: “Qaskoniya”
- Basque: “Gaskoina”
- Basque: “Gaskoinia”
- Basque: “Gaskonia”
- Basque: “Gaskuina”
- Basque: “Kaskoina”
- Belarusian: “Гасконь”
- Breton: “Gwaskogn”
- Bulgarian: “Гаскония”
- Catalan: “Gascogne”
- Catalan: “Gasconha”
- Catalan: “Gascons”
- Catalan: “Gasconya”
- Catalan: “Gascunya”
- Chinese: “Gascogne”
- Chinese: “加斯科尼”
- Chinese: “加斯科涅”
- Corsican: “Gascogna”
- Corsican: “Guascogna”
- Croatian: “Gaskonja”
- Czech: “Gaskoňsko”
- Danish: “Gascogne”
- Dutch: “Gascogne”
- Dutch: “Gasconje”
- Dutch: “Wasconia”
- Esperanto: “Gaskonio”
- Finnish: “Gascogne”
- French: “duché de Gascogne”
- French: “Gascogne”
- Friulian: “Gasconie”
- Galician: “Gascoña”
- Galician: “Gascuña”
- Georgian: “გასკონი”
- German: “Gascogne”
- Greek: “Γασκώνη”
- Hebrew: “גאסקון”
- Hebrew: “גאסקוניה”
- Hebrew: “גסקון”
- Hebrew: “גסקוני”
- Hebrew: “גסקוניה”
- Hindi: “गेस्कनी”
- Hindi: “गेस्कॉनी”
- Hungarian: “Gascogne”
- Ido: “Gaskonia”
- Indonesian: “Gaskonia”
- Irish: “Gascogne”
- Irish: “Gascony”
- Italian: “Gascogna”
- Italian: “Guascogna”
- Japanese: “ガスコーニュ”
- Japanese: “ガスコニア”
- Kirghiz: “Гаскония”
- Korean: “가스코뉴”
- Kurdish: “Gaskonya”
- Latin: “Wasconia”
- Latvian: “Gaskoņa”
- Lithuanian: “Gaskonė”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gascogne”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gascogne”
- Norwegian: “Gascogne”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ducat de Gasconha”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gasconha”
- Ossetian: “Гасконь”
- Persian: “گسکونی”
- Polish: “Gaskonia”
- Portuguese: “Gasconha”
- Romanian: “Gascogne”
- Romanian: “Gasconia”
- Russian: “Гаскония”
- Russian: “Гасконь”
- Serbian: “Гаскоња”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gascogne”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gaskonja”
- Sicilian: “Gascogna”
- Sicilian: “Gascògna”
- Sicilian: “Guascogna”
- Slovak: “Gaskonsko”
- Slovak: “Gaskoňsko”
- Slovak: “Gaskónsko”
- Slovenian: “Gaskonja”
- Spanish: “Ducado de Gascuña”
- Spanish: “Gascogne”
- Spanish: “Gascuña”
- Swedish: “Gascogne”
- Tagalog: “Gascuña”
- Tajik: “Гасконӣ”
- Thai: “Gascogne”
- Thai: “Gascons”
- Thai: “Gascony”
- Thai: “กัสกอญ”
- Thai: “กาสกอญ”
- Thai: “กาสคอญ”
- Thai: “กาสโคนี”
- Turkish: “Gaskonya”
- Ukrainian: “Гасконь”
- Ukrainian: “Ґасконь”
- Venetian: “Vascogna”
- Vietnamese: “Gascogne”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gascogne”
- Welsh: “Dugiaeth Gasgwyn”
- Welsh: “Gasgwyn”
- Welsh: “Gwasgwyn”
- Western Frisian: “Gaskonje”
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