| Limousin Occitan: Lemosin | |||||||||||||
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| Province of Kingdom of France | |||||||||||||
| 1589–1790 | |||||||||||||
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Blason_r%C3%A9gion_fr_Limousin.svg) Coat of arms
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:Curemonte_Chateau.jpg) The Château des Plas, in Curemonte | |||||||||||||
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| History | |||||||||||||
• Established | 1589 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1790 | ||||||||||||
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Limousin (Occitan: Lemosin) is a former province of the Kingdom of France. It existed from 1589 until 1790, when the National Constituent Assembly adopted a more uniform division into departments (départements) and districts (arrondissements). It is located in the foothills of the western edge of the Massif Central and surrounds the city of Limoges (Occitan: Limòtges).[1]
The territory of the former province of Limousin corresponds to an area smaller than the administrative region, comprising the current department of Corrèze, the southern half of Haute-Vienne (including Limoges, its historic capital), and a small part of the Dordogne.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 701.