Occitans

Occitans
Occitans (French); Occitans (Occitan); Occitani (Ligurian)
Total population
	c. 17 million
Regions with significant populations
Languages
	Occitan (native); French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan (as a result of language shift)
Religion
	Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Protestantism)
Related ethnic groups
	Catalans, French, Ligurians

The Occitans (Occitan: occitans) are a Romance-speaking Mediterranean ethnic group. They come from the historical region of Occitania (southern France, northeastern Spain and northwestern Italy).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Just to clarify: virtually everyone in France speaks French. Some speak another language also. Occitans is one of the traditional other languages.

↑ Pèire Bec, "Occitan", in Rebecca Posner, John N. Green eds. 1982. Language and philology in Romance. Walter de Gruyter.
Reprint Volume 3 Language and Philology in Romance. 2011. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Retrieved 24 Nov. 2015, from http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/48412 Archived 2018-06-20 at the Wayback Machine
↑ Gregory Hanlon, Confession and Community in Seventeenth-century France: Catholic and Protestant Coexistence in Aquitaine, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, p. 20
↑ Robert Gildea, France since 1945, Oxford University Press, 1996
↑ Peter McPhee, "Frontiers, Ethnicity and Identity in the French Revolution: Catalans and Occitans" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, in Ian Coller, Helen Davies, and Julie Kalman, eds, French History and Civilisation: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar Archived 2016-11-30 at the Wayback Machine, Vol. 1, Melbourne: The George Rudé Society, 2005
↑ Jeffrey Cole, Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2011

[1] Pèire Bec, "Occitan", in Rebecca Posner, John N. Green eds. 1982. Language and philology in Romance. Walter de Gruyter.
Reprint Volume 3 Language and Philology in Romance. 2011. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. Retrieved 24 Nov. 2015, from http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/48412 Archived 2018-06-20 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Gregory Hanlon, Confession and Community in Seventeenth-century France: Catholic and Protestant Coexistence in Aquitaine, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, p. 20

[3] Robert Gildea, France since 1945, Oxford University Press, 1996

[4] Peter McPhee, "Frontiers, Ethnicity and Identity in the French Revolution: Catalans and Occitans" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, in Ian Coller, Helen Davies, and Julie Kalman, eds, French History and Civilisation: Papers from the George Rudé Seminar Archived 2016-11-30 at the Wayback Machine, Vol. 1, Melbourne: The George Rudé Society, 2005

[5] Jeffrey Cole, Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2011

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