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Perpignan (Catalan Perpinyà) is the préfecture (administrative capital city) of the département of Pyrenées-Orientales in southern France, and was the capital of the former province of Roussillon (French Catalonia). Contains 105,000 inhabitants, or 163,000 including its suburbs.Founded around the year 900, Perpignan was the capital of the counts of Rousillon until 1172 and later was the capital of the Aragonese kingdom of Majorca, 1276 to 1344. King Philip III of France died there in 1285, as he was returning from an unsuccessful expedition into Aragon. Perpignan has more than one thousand years of history. An ancient Roman villa located in the area of Ruscino - an antique Ibero-Ligure town and a Latin city, today called Castell-Rossello (Château-Roussillon)- may originally have been the start of the city, the oldest reference to which (ville Perpinianum) dates back to the year 927. Landmarks include the cloister of the Saint John's cathedral built at the beginning of the 14th century, Le Castillet, built around 1368, and Perpignan's most important monument, , one of the most remarkable examples of medieval civil and military architecture in southern France (entrance : rue des Archers). Construction started in 1276. It was initially a residence for the count Jaume I of Majorca.
