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LIMOUSIN (Lat. Pagus Lemovicinus, ager Lemovicensis, regio Lemovicum, Lemozinum, Limosinium, &c.)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 701 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LIMOUSIN (Lat. Pagus Lemovicinus, ager Lemovicensis, regio Lemovicum, Lemozinum, Limosinium, &c.) , a former province of France. In the time of Julius Caesar the pages Lemovicinus covered the county now comprised in the departments of Haute-Vienne, Correze and Creuse, with the arrondissements of Confolens in
Charente
  and Nontron in Dordogne. These limits it retained until the loth century, and they survived in those of the diocese of
Limoges
  (except a small part cut off in 1317 to form that of Tulle) until 1790. The break-up into
great
  fiefs in the loth century, however, tended rapidly to disintegrate the province, until at the close of the 12th century
Limousin
  embraced only the viscounties of
Limoges
 ,
Turenne
  and Comborn, with a few ecclesiastical lordships, corresponding roughly to the present arrondissements of Limoges and Saint Yrien in Haute-Vienne and part of the arrondissements of Brive, Tulle and Ussel in Correze. In the 17th century
Limousin
 , thus constituted, had become no more than a small gouvernement.
Limousin takes its name from the Lemovices, a Gallic tribe whose county was included by
Augustus
  in the province of Aquitaiic Magna. Politically its history has little of separate
interest
 ; it shared in general the vicissitudes of Aquitaine, whose dukes from 918 onwards were its over-lords at least till 1264, after which it was sometimes under them, sometimes under the
counts
  of Poitiers, until the French kings succeeded in asserting their direct over-lordship. It was, however, until the 14th century, the centre of a civilization of which the enamelling industry (see ENAMEL) was only one expression. The Limousin dialect, now a mere
patois
 , was regarded by the troubadours as the purest form of Provencal.
See A. Lerceux, Geographie et histoire du Limousin (Limoges, 1892). Detailed bibliography in Chevalier, Repertoire des sources. Topo-bibliogr. (
Montbeliard
 , 1902), t. ii. s.v.


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