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Comtat Venaissin (Papal enclave)
The Comtat Venaissin, often called the Comtat for short, is the former name of the region around the city of Avignon in what is now the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France.
It comprises roughly the area between the Rhône, the Durance and Mont Ventoux, with a small exclave located to the north around the town of Valréas bought by the pope John XXII.
The entire region is an enclave within the Kingdom of France.
The Comtat also borders (and mostly surrounds) the Principality of Orange.
Avignon itself is never part of the Comtat but constituted a separate comtat (county) in its own right, in effect forming an enclave within an enclave.
The region is still known informally as the Comtat Venaissin, although this no longer has any political meaning.
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- Aix en Provence Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur France Location
- Anagni Lazio Italy Location
- Augsburg Bayern Germany Location
- Avignon Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur France Location
- Budapest Budapest Hungary Location
- Cape Emine Burgas Bulgaria Location
- Chalcis > Khalkís Evvoia Greece Location
- Chambèry Rhone-Alpes France Location
- Constantinople Istanbul Turkey Location
- Fondi Lazio Italy Location
- Gallipoli > Gelibolu Canakkale Turkey Location
- Grenoble Rhone-Alpes France Location
- Hadleigh Essex United Kingdom Location
- Koróni Messinia Greece Location
- Le Bourget du Lac Rhone-Alpes France Location
- Lisbon > Lisboa Lisboa Portugal Location
- Marseille Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur France Location
- Mesembria > Nesebur Burgas Bulgaria Location
- Milan > Milano > Mediolanum Lombardia Italy Location
- Munich > München Bayern Germany Location
- Naples > Napoli Campania Italy Location
- Nuremberg > Nürnberg Bayern Germany Location
- Padua > Padova Veneto Italy Location
- Parabiago Lombardia Italy Location
- Paris Ile-de-France France Location
- Pavia Lombardia Italy Location
- Pisa Toscana Italy Location
- Pomorie Burgas Bulgaria Location
- Prague > Praha Hlavni mesto Praha Czech Republic Location
- Rhens Rheinland-Pfalz Germany Location
- Rome > Roma Lazio Italy Location
- Sirmium > Sremska Mitrovica Serbia Serbia Location
- Sozopol > Apollonia Burgas Bulgaria Location
- Teguise Canary Islands Spain Location
- Tenedos > Bozca Ada Turkey Location
- Varna Varna Bulgaria Location
- Venice > Venezia Veneto Italy Location
- Villeneuve lés Avignon Languedoc-Roussillon France Location