Cerdanya

The Cerdanya (French Cerdanya, Spanish Cerdaña ) is a landscape in the eastern Pyrenees, the historically one of the Catalan counties, the county of Cerdanya, formed and is divided between France and Spain since the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659.

The Cerdanya has an area of 1086 km ², of which 50.3% on the Spanish and 49.7 % on French territory. In 2001, the Cerdanya had about 26,500 inhabitants ( 53.4 % on Spanish, 46.6 % on French territory ), which gives a population density of 24 inhabitants per km ². The only urban area in the Cerdanya is the cross-border area of Bourg- Madame - Puigcerdà with 10,900 inhabitants in 2001 ( 41 % of the population of Cerdanya ).

Named The northern, French part of Cerdanya, Catalan Alta Cerdanya (, High Cerdanya '), French Cerdanya française, forms within France no separate administrative entity but is part of the Pyrénées -Orientales.

The southern part of the Spanish Cerdanya is today the Catalan comarca of Cerdanya, which is referred to unofficially often referred to as Baixa Cerdanya (, Lower Cerdanya ').

Source

• Philippe Conrad, Les origines de la Catalogne, de la marche d' Espagne carolingienne au comté de Barcelone sur Clio.net

• Historical territory (France)
• Historical territory (Spain )
• Geography (Catalonia )