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Albi

 
  • Location: Midi-Pyrénées/France
  • Variant names: Albiga
Takes its name from a Roman personal name, Albius. It gave its name to the Albigensian Crusade of 1209, a war against Catharist heretics which only ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1229, but which did not eliminate the heresy itself.

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