Northern Catalonia

Northern Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya del Nord) is a term which is sometimes used, particularly in Catalan writings, to refer to the territory ceded to France by Spain  in 1659. The equivalent term in French, Catalogne du Nord, is only rarely used: the term Roussillon (in reference to the pre-Revolutionary  province) is usually preferred. Both Northern Catalonia and Roussillon correspond approximately to the modern French  département of the  Pyrénées-Orientales.
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