Périgord

France

Périgord, a region in southwest France, has 66 connections with 2236 places across 18 topics, with many shared with Paris and Spain. History, government, and military threads run deepest through its network. The region formed part of Guyenne, a medieval territory that included the Bordelais around Bordeaux, and Périgueux serves as the administrative capital of the Dordogne. Jean de Dunois held the County of Périgord in the 1430s. Font-de-Gaume's cave paintings were the first discovered in the province, and the black truffle takes its common name from the region.

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