Lombers

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

Lombers
Commune
Coat of arms
Location of Lombers
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Coordinates: 43°48′18″N 2°09′03″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Tarn
Arrondissement	Albi
Canton	Le Haut Dadou
Intercommunality	Réalmontais
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Claude Roques
Area ^1	38.79 km^2 (14.98 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	1,141
• Density	29/km^2 (76/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.

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.[2]

Geography

The commune is traversed by the river Assou.

See also

• Communes of the Tarn department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Duvernoy, Jean, editor (1976), Guillaume de Puylaurens, Chronique 1145-1275: Chronica magistri Guillelmi de Podio Laurentii, Paris: CNRS, ISBN 2-910352-06-4 pp. 40-43.