Starting Population     201                     % of Worldwide          0.7%                    

                                                Population                                      

Starting Income         3,360                   % of Worldwide          0.5%                    

                                                Income                                          

Starting GDP            39,254                  % of Worldwide GDP      0.6%                    

Starting Surplus        307                     % of Worldwide          0.9%                    

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7 fiefs in province                             Overlord:               de Valois (200)
         

Kingdom: France

Comments: Toulouse is an extensive county in the south of France. Originally a part of Gallic and later Roman Aquitaine, the region shares a history with Gascony and Guyenne, passing from Roman rule to Visigothic, and later Frankish, but was not incorporated into the Duchy of Aquitaine, a separate line of counts being established in Carolingian times.

Under its counts, Toulouse rose to great influence in southern France, its authority for a time extending over Narbonne and the Languedoc, of which the county linguistically forms a part, and even into the Spains. However, the rise of the Albigensian heresy in the last century brought the counts to heel, and they for a time lost power to Simon de Montfort in 1215, only to reassert their authority by force of arms in 1218.

Ecclesiastical authority is vested in the Archbishop of Toulouse, where there has been a university for more than a century now. There is considerable commerce and industry in the principal cities, Toulouse and Albi, but the county is otherwise primarily agricultural.