Bastide

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title: Bastide
text: Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the 13th and 14th centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the first bastides. Some of the first bastides were built under Raymond VII of Toulouse to replace villages destroyed in the Albigensian Crusade. He encouraged the construction of others to colonize the wilderness, especially of southwest France. Almost 700 bastides were
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description: Medieval fortified towns in France, England, and Wales
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastide
date created: 2005-01-02T21:25:16Z
date modified: 2024-09-03T20:48:36Z
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