Bearn meaning

bā-ärn
A historical region and former province of southwest France in the western Pyrenees. The region was autonomous until 1620.
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Historical region in SW France, in the Pyrenees.
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A former viscounty in the southwestern French Pyrenees, which became part of the French royal domain before it was united with the French crown, together with Navarra, as a single feudal province of the French realm.

Béarn and the (Basque) region Lower Navarre formed the present département of the Basses-Pyrenées ('Lower Pyrenees')

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Origin of bearn

  • From French Béarn.

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Bearn Sentence Examples

  • Marca, in his Histoire de Bearn, holds that the word signifies "hunters of the Goths," and that the Cagots are descendants of the Saracens.

  • Brissaud and P. Roge in Textes additionnels aux anciens Fors de Bearn (1905); Leon Cadier, Les Etats de Beam depuis leur origine jusqu'au commencement du XVI e siecle (1888).

  • The ethnology, folk-lore, institutions and history of the Pyrenean region form an interesting study: see Andorra; Aragon; Basques; Bearn; Catalonia; Navarre.

  • Wines produced here include Bearn, Bergerac Rose, Cahors and Cotes de Bergerac Blanc.

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