The Hers-Mort ( French pronunciation: [ɛʁs mɔʁ] ; Occitan : Èrs Mòrt ; the "Dead Hers", as opposed to the faster-flowing Hers-Vif , or "Live Hers") is a 89.3-kilometre (55.5 mi) long river in southern France, a right-bank tributary of the Garonne . Its average flow rate is 4 cubic metres per second (140 cu ft/s). The Hers-Mort rises in the Lauragais region, near the village Fonters-du-Razès , in the Aude department. It flows northwest through the following departments and towns:
4-602: It flows into the Garonne near Grenade-sur-Garonne . Its waters, augmented by the Girou which flows into its right bank, irrigate the market gardens around Toulouse . The Canal du Midi crosses the Hers-Mort near Villefranche-de-Lauragais via the Hers Aqueduct . This Occitania geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to
8-570: A river in France is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Grenade-sur-Garonne Grenade ( French pronunciation: [ɡʁənad] ; Languedocien : Granada ), also referred to as Grenade-sur-Garonne , is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France . The town is a bastide founded in the 1290s on the initiative of the Cistercian monks of
12-577: Is therefore called so to show that it is destined to be an influential city in the South West of France. It has also been suggested that Granada comes from the Latin Granat - meaning grain - as the region was noted for its agriculture. Later, when the king had regained control of the different regions of the South-West, a “network” of bastides was created. Under this royal protection, Granada prospered thanks to
16-457: The Abbey of Grandselve who had founded Beaumont-de-Lomagne ten years earlier. The city is the subject of a paréage agreement between the monks and the seneschal Eustache de Beaumarchais representing King Philip IV . The new bastides created at this time are baptized with the names of large influential cities of the time, from Spain or Italy , such as Fleurance ( Florence ), or Cologne . Grenada
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