Céret

Céret (French: [seʁɛ]; Catalan: Ceret [səˈɾɛt]) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It is the capital of the historic Catalan comarque of Vallespir.

Geography

The town lies in the foothills of the Pyrénées mountains, in southern France. It has an altitude of 175–1400 meters. It is located 7 km (4.3 mi) from the Autoroute A9, 200 km (120 mi) from Montpellier, 250 km (160 mi) from Toulouse and 180 km (110 mi) from Barcelona. It lies on the river Tech. The GR 10 footpath runs close by.

Céret is located in the canton of Céret and in the arrondissement of Céret.

Toponymy

The name of the town in Catalan is Ceret.

Former known names of Céret are, in order of appearance, vicus Sirisidum in 814, vico Cereto in 866, villa Cerseto in 915, vigo Ceresido in 930, also Cered and Ceriteto in the 10th century, Ceret, Cericeto in the 11th and 12th centuries, Cirset around 1070, Cersed (one of the most common forms) in 1130 and Cerset in 1138, and from the 13th to 15th centuries Cereto, Ceret, Seret and Saret. Ceret becomes the most common form around the 16th century. ·

Gornji Lenart

Gornji Lenart (pronounced [ˈɡoːɾnji ˈleːnaɾt]) is a settlement in the Municipality of Brežice in eastern Slovenia. The area was traditionally part of Styria. It is now included in the Lower Sava Statistical Region.

Name

The name Gornji Lenart literally means 'upper Leonard', a designation that distinguished it from Šentlenart (literally, 'Saint Leonard'), which was annexed by Brežice. Until 1927, the settlement was officially called Zverinjak (literally, 'menagerie'), in reference to the collection of wild animals kept there by the owners of Brežice Castle. Locally, the settlement is also known as Tirget (< German Tiergarten 'zoo'), also a reference to the menagerie, or Čret (literally, 'marshland, morass'), referring to the local geography.

History

During the Second World War, in the fall of 1941, the village population was evicted in order to make way for the resettlement of Gottschee Germans.

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