Midi-Pyrénées
Midi-Pyrénées (French: [midi piʁene]; Occitan: Miègjorn-Pirenèus or Mieidia-Pirenèus; Spanish: Mediodía-Pirineos) is the largest region of Metropolitan France by area, larger than the Netherlands or Denmark.
Auterive is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
Population: 7,369
Latitude: 43° 21' 3.71" N
Longitude: 1° 28' 40.69" E
Midi-Pyrénées (French: [midi piʁene]; Occitan: Miègjorn-Pirenèus or Mieidia-Pirenèus; Spanish: Mediodía-Pirineos) is the largest region of Metropolitan France by area, larger than the Netherlands or Denmark.
Le Vernet Internment Camp, or Camp Vernet, was a concentration camp in Le Vernet, Ariège, near Pamiers, in the French Pyrenees.
The École nationale de l'aviation civile (ENAC) (French Civil Aviation University) is a French grande école founded on August 28, 1949 to provide initial and continuing education in the field of civil aviation. The university is an établissement pub…
AZF (French initialism for AZote Fertilisant, i.e. nitrogen fertiliser) was the name of a chemical factory in Toulouse, France, which exploded on 21 September 2001. The blast was equivalent to 20-40 tons of TNT, measuring 3.4 on the Richter scale, a…
SUPAERO - École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace ® ("SUPAERO", translated as "National Higher School of Aeronautics and Space"), founded in 1909, is one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles in France. It was the …
At the Battle of Muret on 12 September 1213 the Crusader army of Simon IV de Montfort defeated the Catharist, Aragonese and Catalan forces of Peter II of Aragon, at Muret near Toulouse.
The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse or INSA Toulouse is a Grande École d'Ingénieurs, an engineering university, under the authority of the French Ministry of Education and Research and part of the INSA's network.
Stade Jean Dauger is a multi-purpose stadium in Bayonne, France. It is currently used mostly for rugby union matches and is the home stadium of Aviron Bayonnais.
Aqueducts on the Canal du Midi allow the canal to intersect and cross over natural streams. There are two exceptions, the first is the Herbettes Aqueduct where it crosses a four-lane highway in Toulouse.
Portet-sur-Garonne is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
The Louge is a 100.1 km (62.2 mi) long river in southwestern France, left tributary of the Garonne.
The Hers-Vif ("Live Hers", as opposed to the slower flowing Hers-Mort, "Dead Hers"), also named Grand Hers or simply Hers, is a 135-kilometre (84 mi) long river in southern France, right tributary of the Ariège River.
The Ariège (Occitan: Arièja) is a 164 km long river in southern France, right tributary of the Garonne. Its source is in the Pyrenees, where it forms part of the border with Andorra.
The Arize is a river of France, a right affluent of the Garonne. It arises at 1,355 in the massif of Arize, in the Pyrenees, in the department of Ariège. Its length is 67 km.
Issus-Aussaguel Station is a radio antenna station for communication with spacecraft operated by the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES).
Le Vernet-d'Ariège is a railway station in Le Vernet, Midi-Pyrénées, France. The station is located on the Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway.
The Negra Aqueduct (French: Aqueduc de Négra) is one of several aqueducts on the Canal du Midi.
Longages is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.