Toulouse

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Toulouse ( too-LOOZ; French: [tuluz] ; Occitan: Tolosa [tuˈluzɔ] ) is a city in Southern France, the prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres (93 miles) from the Mediterranean Sea, 230 km (143 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean and 680 km (420 mi) from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille, and Lyon, with 514,819 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2023); its metropolitan area has a population of 1,529,112 inhabitants (2023), an increase of more than 110,000 since 2017. Founded by the Romans on the banks of the Garonne, Toulouse was the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom in the 5th century, then the seat of the counts of Toulouse, whose court welcomed the troubadours. The Albigensian Crusade saw the founding of the Dominican Order in the city in 1215 and of the University of Toulouse in 1229, one of the oldest in Europe, before the county passed to the French crown...

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