Duran is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.
The Gers (French: le Gers, pronounced: [ʒɛʁs] or [ʒɛʁ]; Gascon: Gers) is a department in the Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées region in the southwest of France named after the Gers River.
Inhabitants are called les Gersois.
In the Middle Ages, the Lordship of L'Isle-Jourdain was nearby.
The Gers is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Guyenne and Gascony.
In 1808 it lost Lavit on its north-eastern side to the newly created department of Tarn-et-Garonne.
The culture is largely agricultural, with great emphasis on the local gastronomical specialties such as:
Also, some prominent cultivated crops are corn, colza, sunflowers and grain.
The Gascon language is a dialect of Occitan, but it is not widely spoken. The department is characterised by sleepy bastide villages and rolling hills with the Pyrenees visible to the south.
Gers may refer to:
I've seen her face
I've heard her name
I've lost my place and she's to blame
And I can't stand it
When I'm staring in her eyes
And she's not looking back
It ain't a big surprise
I've heard music,
I've heard noise
I wish that she could hear her voice
The way that I do
When I go to sleep at night
And dream my life away
But she's gone when I awake
Sami, Sami
Why can't you see
What you're doing to me?
The way her hair falls in her eyes
Makes me wonder
If she'll ever see through my disguise
And I'm under her spell
Everything is falling
But I don't know where to land
And she just knows where she is
But she don't know who I am
Sami, Sami
Why can't you see
What you're doing to me?
I see you singing on that stage
You look just like an angel
And all I do is pray
Than maybe someday
You'll hear my song
And understand that all along
There's something more that I'm trying to say
When I say
Sami, Sami
Why can't you see
What you're doing to me?
What you're doing to me
Sami, Sami
Why can't you see
What you're doing to me?