page_title: Northern Catalonia
hierarchical_section_title: Northern Catalonia
context_page_description: Northern Catalonia is a name that sometimes is used, mainly in Catalan writings, to refer to the territory given to France by Spain in 1659. The area corresponds approximately to the modern French département of the Pyrénées-Orientales.
  The French name, Catalogne Nord, is used nowadays, although less often than the more politically neutral Roussillon. Sometimes French Catalonia is also used.
context_section_description: Northern Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya Nord, French: Catalogne Nord) is a name that sometimes is used, mainly in Catalan writings, to refer to the territory given to France by Spain in 1659. The area corresponds approximately to the modern French département of the Pyrénées-Orientales.
  The French name, Catalogne Nord, is used nowadays, although less often than the more politically neutral Roussillon (in reference to the pre-Revolutionary province). Sometimes French Catalonia is also used.
caption: The Canigou (2785 m) seen from near Perpignan
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