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Sévérac-le-Château is a former commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Sévérac-d'Aveyron.The Château de Sévérac is a 13th-century castle that dominates the town. It is open to the public. This new area of 72,724km² resulting from the merger of two regions of southern France roughly corresponds to the ancient Languedoc, Haut-Languedoc ( Toulouse ) and Lower Languedoc ( Montpellier ) together, but also a part of the province of Biscay centered Auch, and the provinces of Quercy ( Cahors, Montauban ) and Rouergue ( Rodez ), all traditional Occitan. Getting finally adds the former province of Roussillon and Cerdagne ( Perpignan ), meanwhile tradition of Catalan, and the county of Foix.The limits of the region Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées almost exactly correspond to the limits of the jurisdiction of the former Parliament of Toulouse (with the exception of Pyrénées-Orientales, which depended on the Roussillon sovereign council, and the Ardèche and the eastern third of the Haute-Loire, which depended on the Toulouse parliament under the old regime but are now part of the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ).The region Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées is located in the south of France, it is close to the Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes in the west of the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur east and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes to the north. It also borders two countries to the south, the Spain and Andorra.The administrative unit of the Pyrenean massif is accentuated by the addition of Pyrénées-Orientales, in the former province of Roussillon, traditions Catalan, other small Pyrenean provinces of Ariege, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, County Foix, Couserans, Comminges, Bigorre.