Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes ( French pronunciation: [kodjɛs də fənujɛd] , lit. ' Caudiès of Fenouillèdes ' ; Occitan : Caudièrs de Fenolhet ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France .
3-473: 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
6-476: 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
9-568: 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. This Pyrénées-Orientales geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Canton of La Vall%C3%A9e de l%27Agly The canton of La Vallée de l'Agly is an administrative division of the Pyrénées-Orientales department , in southern France . It
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