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Sévérac-le-Château is a former commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Sévérac-d'Aveyron.
The Château de Sévérac is a 13th-century castle that dominates the town. It is open to the public.
This new area of 72,724 km² resulting from the merger of two regions of southern France roughly corresponds to the ancient Languedoc, Haut-Languedoc ( Toulouse ) and Lower Languedoc ( Montpellier ) together, but also a part of the province of Biscay centered Auch, and the provinces of Quercy ( Cahors, Montauban ) and Rouergue ( Rodez ), all traditional Occitan . Getting finally adds the former province of Roussillon and Cerdagne ( Perpignan ), meanwhile tradition of Catalan, and the county of Foix .
The limits of the region Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées almost exactly correspond to the limits of the jurisdiction of the former Parliament of Toulouse (with the exception of Pyrénées-Orientales, which depended on the Roussillon sovereign council, and the Ardèche and the eastern third of the Haute-Loire, which depended on the Toulouse parliament under the old regime but are now part of the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ).
The region Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées is located in the south of France, it is close to the Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes in the west of the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur east and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to the north. It also borders two countries to the south, the Spain and Andorra .
The administrative unit of the Pyrenean massif is accentuated by the addition of Pyrénées-Orientales, in the former province of Roussillon, traditions Catalan, other small Pyrenean provinces of Ariege, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, County Foix, Couserans, Comminges, Bigorre .
The administrative unit of South Massif Central terroirs of Causses, the Cévennes to the Montagne Noire, the Gévaudan, Aubrac, Rouergue and Quercy is also reinforced by the creation of the new large area.