Lombers

Lombers
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Lombers
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Coordinates: 43°48′18″N 2°09′03″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Tarn
Arrondissement	Albi
Canton	Le Haut Dadou
Intercommunality	CC Centre Tarn
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Claude Roques[1]
Area ^1	38.79 km^2 (14.98 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	1,090
• Density	28/km^2 (73/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	81147 /81120
Elevation	177–321 m (581–1,053 ft) (avg. 1,911 m or 6,270 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Lombers

Lombers is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.

History

Lombers was the significant centre of Catharism in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. It was the location of a Catholic-Cathar debate, perhaps in the 1180s, between Guillaume Peyre de Brens, Catholic bishop of Albi, and Sicard le Cellerier, Cathar bishop of Albi; Sicard lived at Lombers.[3]

Geography

The commune is traversed by the river Assou.

See also

• Communes of the Tarn department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. Duvernoy, Jean, editor (1976), Guillaume de Puylaurens, Chronique 1145-1275: Chronica magistri Guillelmi de Podio Laurentii, Paris: CNRS, ISBN 2-910352-06-4 {{citation}}: |given= has generic name (help) pp. 40-43.