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Carcassonne Agglo

agglomeration community

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ1035596 ↗
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Carcassonne Agglo (Occitan: Carcassona Agló) is the agglomeration community, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Carcassonne. It is located in the department of Aude, in the region of Occitania, southern France. It was created in January 2013. Its seat is in Carcassonne. Its area is 1062.2 km2. Its population was 112,852 in 2017, of which 46,031 in Carcassonne proper.

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“Carcassonne Agglo” enters the record as agglomeration community. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Carcassonne, Agglo and agglomeration can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 1062, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Carcassonne, Agglo and agglomeration.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1035596. VIAF identifies the subject as 124740435. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013, 1062 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carcassonne Agglo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.