Haute-Garonne

[ oht-ga-rawn ]

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noun

Haute-Garonne

/ otɡarɔn /

a department of SW France, in Midi-Pyrénées region. Capital: Toulouse. Pop: 1 102 919 (2003 est). Area: 6367 sq km (2483 sq miles)

The cave of Gourdan (Haute-Garonne) contained the largest collection of implements of bone and horn ever discovered.

Haute-Garonne has deposits of zinc and lead, and salt-workings; there is an ancient and active marble-working industry at St Bat.

The Garumni, in the south of the department of the Haute-Garonne.

In like manner, in Haute-Garonne,3367 it is also "against non-jurors and their followers" that the insurrection has begun.

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