Aude is a department in the Occitania region of southern France, with Carcassonne serving as its capital. Located between the Mediterranean Sea and the Pyrenees mountains, Aude is nicknamed "Cathar Country" in honor of the religious dissidents in the region who were targeted by the Albigensian Crusade of the early 13th century. Aude later enjoyed strong wine production, and the Aude department was a royalist stronghold until the end of the Bourbon Restoration in 1830. Afterwards, the department became a bastion of the left and of republicanism, and only the coastal areas around Narbonne have a habit of expressing conservative support. In 2019, Aude had a population of 374,070 people.
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