What is Comminges?
[[File:Vallée_du_Comminges.JPG|thumb|A valley in Comminges.]] [[File:Carte_du_Comminges.svg|thumb|The former county of Comminges ~ as seen on a modern map.]] The '''Comminges''' is a [[natural region]] in southern [[France]], near the [[Pyrenees]]. It contains the upper valley of the [[Garonne river|Garonne]], one of France's four great [[river]]s.<ref name=Facaros280>Dana Facaros; Michael Pauls, ''Cadogan Guides Gascony & the Pyrenees'' (London: Cadogan Guides, 2007), p. 280</ref> It is one of the oldest [[wikt:inhabit|inhabit]]ed places in France. Before the [[French Revolution]] it was a [[county]] of the historical region of [[Gascony]].<ref name=Facaros280/> It was named for the [[Ancient history|ancient]] tribe the ''Convenae''.<ref>Martin Calder, ''A Summer in Gascony: Discovering the Other South of France'' (London; Boston: Nicholas Brealey, 2008), p. 89</ref> They were a [[Celts|Celtic tribe]] living in and around [[Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges]] by at least the [[1st century BC]].<ref>Carl Waldman; Catherine Mason, ''Encyclopedia of European Peoples'' (New York: Facts On File, 2006), p. 177</ref> [[File:Vallée du Comminges - 2016-06-28 - Panorama.jpg|thumb|upright 3|center|The valley of the Comminges]] == References == {{reflist}} {{commons}} {{France-geo-stub}} [[Category:Haute-Garonne]]