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| Overview |
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The Ville Rose ("Pink City")
of France - Toulouse is the capital of
good life, a city of students, and a
center of cutting-edge European
technology, located between the
Mediterranean and the Atlantic coast,
with a rich and diverse culture, taste
for celebrations and fine food to
attract a growing number of new
inhabitants.
Area: 45,349 sq km
Population: 800,000
Country: France
Time Zone: GMT/UTC +1 (Central
European Time)
Telephone Area Code: All
telephone numbers begin with 05; the 05
should be included when dialing from
within France and within the city
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| History in
Brief |
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The counts of Toulouse supported the
Cathars in the 12th and 13th centuries.
But in three centuries later, the city
sided with the Catholic League during
the Wars of Religion. During the 16th
and 17th centuries, many Toulouse
merchants were becoming wealthy from the
blue dye trade, but it was later
collapsed when the Portuguese began to
import indigo from India.
During WWI, Toulouse focused on the
manufacture of arms and aircraft, hence
it became a center for both. And after
WWII, Toulouse was heart of the
country's aerospace industry.
Finally, Toulouse has recently
continued to lead the way in European
high-technology manufacture, with
infrastructure development ongoing, and
the second metro line under
construction.
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The old capital of languedoc and france's
fourth-largest city, toulouse (known as la ville en rose, or the
city in pink) today is cosmopolitan in flavor. The major city of
the southwest, it's the gateway to the pyr?n?es mountain range.
Toulouse might be a city with a distinguished historical past,
but it is also a city of the future and the high-tech center of
the aerospace industry in france. It is home to two huge
aircraft makers -- airbus and a?rospatiale. |
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