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Béziers (bāzyā`), city (1990 pop. 72,362), Hérault dept., S France, in Languedoc. A communications and industrial center with an important trade in wines and liqueurs, it has ironworks, breweries, and factories making a great variety of products. An episcopal see from the 4th cent. to 1802, Béziers was involved in numerous religious wars. During the Albigensian crusade (see under Albigenses Albigenses (ălbĭjĕn`sēz) [Lat.,=people of Albi, one of their centers], religious sect of S France in the Middle Ages. ..... Click the link for more information. ) it was taken (1209) by Simon de Montfort; a horrible massacre followed. Béziers has a noted cathedral (13th–14th cent.) and some old churches. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 5km long, curving across the Tarn Gorge on a new section of the A75, the route between Paris and Beziers in the south of France. The nobility of the senechaussee of Beziers asked the king to uphold seigneurial privileges as "the most sacred form of property". He joined his father in Beziers in the practice of otology. |
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