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Occitania / OccitàniaWiki[link]
It is the region in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language, and where it is sometimes
still used, for the most part as a second language.
It encompasses roughly half of France and has 16 million people (2 million know the language).
Nationalism is marginal, but the efforts to preserve the language and obtain regional autonomy are quite strong.
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Beautiful flag.
But could you remove "lo País d'òc" in your description. Now, us occitan, never use it. We better use Occitània.
And for information, may the number of independentist are low,but more to more people speaks occitan (both in number and in percentage), and a recent demonstration in Tolosa (Toulouse) regrouped about 30 000 people (and same about some others occitan cities).
And it's not spoken by half a million, but by 2 millions of people, now :/ Just saying... Anyway
Thanks a lot, mate, for featuring the flag of my nation.
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It is. The Toulouse cross (in occitan, la crotz occitana, la crotz de Tolosa) is the main symbol of Occitània. It kinda symbolises the occitan language and culture.
The star is the symbole of the Felibritge, which was the first occitanist movement. In the occitan flag, it symbolises the nation, the will of independentism (and makes the difference between the occitan flag, and the flag of Lengadòc, a region of Occitània).
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