Le canton de Castelnaudary-Sud est une ancienne division administrative française située dans le département de l'Aude.
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The Battle of Castelnaudary occurred at Castelnaudary, France, on 1 September 1632, between the rebel forces of Henri II de Montmorency and the royalist forces of Marshal Henri de Schomberg.
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Castelnaudary is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region of southern France. It is located in the former province of the Lauragais and famous for cassoulet of which it claims to be the world capital, and of which it is a major producer.
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The canton of Le Bassin chaurien is an administrative division of the Aude department, southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Castelnaudary.
It consists of the following communes:
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The Grand Bassin is the largest body of open water along the Canal du Midi. It is in Castelnaudary, France and covers some 7 hectares. Once a scene of intense economic activity, it is now a major pleasure port used by tourist craft. It holds the water reserve for the four locks of Saint-Roche.
Official opening ceremonies for the Canal du Midi were held here on 19 May 1681.
The basin is exposed to considerable winds, historically even blowing horses and men into the water. A windbreak called Cybele Island was built in 1754.
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The Inchaurrondo Barracks, headquarters of the Gipuzkoa Command of the Civil Guard, is a police complex of the Civil Guard located on the outskirts of San Sebastián, Spain. It is named after the Intxaurrondo neighborhood in which it is situated.
For much of the 20th century, it served as the central hub for the Spanish government's counter-terrorism efforts against the terrorist organization ETA, resulting in the deaths of 100 Civil Guard members stationed there by ETA attacks. Most major Spanish police operations against ETA were planned and coordinated from the Inchaurrondo Barracks, with security forces dismantling 278 ETA cells and arresting 1,550 ETA members, 437 of whom were apprehended by agents from the barracks.
Some practices at the barracks were denounced as torture against individuals detained for their links to the terrorist organization, with some convictions, most notably that of the barracks' commander, General Enrique Rodríguez Galindo, who was sentenced to 71 years in prison for the Lasa and Zabala case.