Lombers

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Lombers
Coordinates: 43°48′18″N2°09′03″E / 43.805°N 2.1508°E / 43.805; 2.1508
Country France
Region Occitania
Department Tarn
Arrondissement Albi
Canton Le Haut Dadou
Intercommunality CC Centre Tarn
Government
  Mayor (20202026) Claude Roques [1]
Area
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38.79 km2 (14.98 sq mi)
Population
 (2022) [2]
1,090
  Density28/km2 (73/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
81147 /81120
Elevation177–321 m (581–1,053 ft)
(avg. 1,911 m or 6,270 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
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Lombers

Lombers is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.

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History

Lombers was the significant centre of Catharism in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. It was the location of a Catholic-Cathar debate, perhaps in the 1180s, between Guillaume Peyre de Brens, Catholic bishop of Albi, and Sicard le Cellerier, Cathar bishop of Albi; Sicard lived at Lombers. [3]

Geography

The commune is traversed by the river Assou.

See also

References

  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
  3. Duvernoy, Jean, editor (1976), Guillaume de Puylaurens, Chronique 1145-1275: Chronica magistri Guillelmi de Podio Laurentii, Paris: CNRS, ISBN   2-910352-06-4 {{citation}}: |given= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) pp. 40-43.