Pyrenees Orientales

Pyrenees Orientals is a department of Occitanie adjoining to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. It also surrounds the tiny Spanish exclave of Llivia, and as a result has awesome borders with Spain. Prior to the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, maximum of the present branch become a part of the previous Principality of Catalonia, inside the Crown of Aragon, consequently a part of the Kingdom of Spain, so the majority of it has traditionally been Catalan-talking, and it's miles still referred to as Northern Catalonia.

The modern-day department turned into created early at some point of the French Revolution on nine February 1790 beneath the call of Roussillon, additionally the call of the pre-Revolutionary province of Roussillon to which it nearly exactly corresponds, although the department additionally consists of Fenouilledes, a small piece of territory which had previously been at the southern edge of Languedoc. The name consequently modified on February 26, 1790 to Pyrenees-Orientales. During the nineteenth century, Pyrenees-Orientales proved one of the most continually republican departments in France. The intellectual and republican baby-kisser François Arago, who, during the early months of the fast-lived Second Republic in 1848, was in brief de facto Head of kingdom, came from Estagel in the east of the branch.