in the late 13th century. The somewhat uncommon ending of the term Occitania is most likely from a French clerk who joined the òc and Aquitània in a portmanteau term, thus blending the language and the land in just one concept.

On 28 September 2016, Occitanie became the name of an administrative region that merged the previous regions of Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon;it