Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes
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The church of Our Lady of Laval, near Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes
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Location within Occitanie region
Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes
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| Coordinates: 42°48′46″N 2°22′35″E / 42.8128°N 2.3764°ECoordinates: 42°48′46″N 2°22′35″E / 42.8128°N 2.3764°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Occitanie | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales | |
| Arrondissement | Perpignan | |
| Canton | La Vallée de l'Agly | |
| Intercommunality | Agly Fenouillèdes | |
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| • Mayor (2014-2020) | Jean-Pierre Fourlon | |
| Area1 | 36.45 km2 (14.07 sq mi) | |
| Population (2013)2 | 645 | |
| • Density | 18/km2 (46/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 66046 /66220 | |
| Elevation | 279–1,000 m (915–3,281 ft) (avg. 347 m or 1,138 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes is located in the canton of La Vallée de l'Agly and in the arrondissement of Perpignan.
The name of the town in Occitan is Caudiers de Fenolledès (historical form), de Fenolhedés (normalized form) or de Fenolhet (by similarity with other nearby communes).
The name first appears in 1011 as Caldarios. It is then written as Cauders in the 14th century, and then Caudies from the 15th to the 17th centuries, and then as Caudiers or Caudiès in modern Occitan.
In French, the official name is Caudiès in 1790, when the village becomes a commune, even though the names of Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes or Caudiès-de-Saint-Paul were already in use.Caudiès-de-Saint-Paul is used until the end of the 19th century, but the town officially changes its name on 31 January 1898 to Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes, still in use nowadays.
The name comes from the Latin caldarius, meaning cauldron, as can be seen on the local coat of arms, and may refer to nearby pit caves around the river Boulzane.
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