Comminges

The Comminges is a natural region in southern France, near the Pyrenees. It contains the upper valley of the Garonne, one of France's four great rivers.^[1] It is one of the oldest inhabited places in France. Before the French Revolution it was a county of the historical region of Gascony.^[1] It was named for the ancient tribe the Convenae.^[2] They were a Celtic tribe living in and around Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges by at least the 1st century BC.^[3]

The valley of the Comminges

A valley in Comminges.

The former county of Comminges ~ as seen on a modern map.