Comtat Venaissin

E82881

former administrative division historic territory papal enclave

Comtat Venaissin was a historic papal enclave in southeastern France that, together with Avignon, formed a key center of papal temporal power from the Middle Ages until the French Revolution.

Aliases (2)

Comtat Venaicin ×1
Comtat Venaissin plain ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former administrative division → historic territory → papal enclave →
adjacentTo	Avignon →
annexationConfirmationYear	1797 →
annexationConfirmedBy	Treaty of Tolentino →
annexationYear	1791 →
annexedBy	Kingdom of France →
associatedWith	Avignon Papacy →
borderedBy	Durance River → Mont Ventoux region → Rhône River →
capital	Carpentras →
cededToPapalStatesBy	King Philip III of France NERFINISHED →
contains	Carpentras → Cavaillon → L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue → Valréas →
country	Papal States →
endOfDeFactoPapalRule	1791 →
governedBy	papal legate → vice-legate →
hadStatus	enclave within the Kingdom of France → papal temporal possession →
historicalEra	Ancien Régime → Early modern period → Middle Ages →
historicalRegion	Provence →
knownFor	refuge for religious minorities → relative fiscal privileges →
language	French → Occitan →
legalSystem	canon law → local customary law →
locatedIn	Provence → Vaucluse → southeastern France →
nameInFrench	Comtat Venaissin →
nameInOccitan	Comtat Venaicin →
nameLanguage	Occitan →
nowPartOf	France → French department of Vaucluse →
partOf	Papal States →
previousRuler	County of Toulouse → Kingdom of France →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
sovereign	Holy See → Pope →
startOfPapalRule	1274 →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Vaucluse ("Comtat Venaissin plain") → Vaucluse →	contains
Orange (France) →	historicalRegion
Vaucluse →	historicRegion
Avignon Papacy →	locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
Comtat Venaissin →	nameInFrench
Comtat Venaissin ("Comtat Venaicin") →	nameInOccitan