L'église Saint-Amans de Lincargue ou de Lincarque, est un édifice religieux catholique situé à Cestayrols dans le département du Tarn, en région Occitanie, en France.
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Cestayrols is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.
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Bernac is a commune in the Tarn département in southern France. It has 189 inhabitants in 2013.
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Occitania is the historical region in southern Europe where the Occitan language was historically spoken and where it persists today as a local dialect. This cultural area roughly encompasses much of the southern third of France as well as part of Spain, Monaco, and parts of Italy.
Occitania has been recognized as a linguistic and cultural concept since the Middle Ages. The territory was united in Roman times as the Seven Provinces and in the Early Middle Ages.
Currently, the region has a population of 16 million, and between 200,000 and 800,000 people are either native or proficient speakers of Occitan. More commonly, French, Piedmontese, Catalan, Spanish and Italian are spoken. Since 2006, the Occitan language has been an official language in Catalonia, which includes the Aran Valley, where Occitan gained official status in 1990.
At the time of the Roman empire, most of Occitania was known as Aquitania. The territories conquered early were known as Provincia Romana, while the northern provinces of what is now France were called Gallia. Under the late Roman empire, both Aquitania and Provincia Romana were grouped in the Seven Provinces or Viennensis. Provence and Gallia Aquitania have been in use since medieval times for Occitania.
The historic Duchy of Aquitaine should not be confused with the modern French region called Aquitaine: this is a reason why the term Occitania was revived in the mid-19th century. The terms "Occitania" and "Occitan language" appeared in Latin texts from as early as 1242–1254 to 1290 and during the early 14th century; texts exist in which the area is referred indirectly as "the country of the Occitan language". The name Lenga d'òc was used in Italian by Dante in the late 13th century. The somewhat uncommon ending of the term Occitania is most likely from a French clerk who joined the òc [ɔk] and Aquitània [ɑkiˈtanjɑ] in a portmanteau term, thus blending the language and the land in just one concept.
On 28 September 2016, Occitanie became the name of an administrative region that merged the previous regions of Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon;
it is a small part of Occitania.