Coursan station

Coursan (French pronunciation: [kuʁsɑ̃] (listen); Occitan: Corçan) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. Coursan station has rail connections to Narbonne, Béziers and Montpellier. It is 7 km from Narbonne on the river Aude. There is a bridge built in the fifteenth century, over which passes the RN9 road. The town has a church from the same period which is in the course of being restored. Composer Henry Fourès was born in Coursan (17 May 1948)

The canton of Les Basses Plaines de l'Aude (before 2015: canton of Coursan) is an administrative unit in the Aude department, southern France. Its seat is in the town Coursan. The canton consists of 6 communes: Armissan Coursan Cuxac-d'Aude Fleury Salles-d'Aude Vinassan

Vinassan (French pronunciation: [vinasɑ̃] (listen); Occitan: Vinaçan) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.

The Pont Serme or Pons Selinus, later called the Pons Septimus, was a Roman bridge of the Via Domitia in Hérault, southern France. The approximately 1500 m long viaduct crossed the wide marshes of the Orb and the Etang de Capestang west of Béziers, surpassing in length even the Trajan's Bridge over the Danube. Today, few traces remain of the viaduct, other than its name, which has passed over to a nearby village.

Cuxac-d'Aude (French pronunciation: [kyksak dod] (listen); Occitan: Cucçac d'Aude) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. The French operatic tenor Léon Escalaïs was born and died in Cuxac-d'Aude.

The canton of Narbonne-3 is an administrative division of the Aude department, southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Narbonne.It consists of the following communes: Narbonne (partly)

The Parc des Sports et de l'Amitié is a multi-use stadium in Narbonne, France. The stadium is currently used mostly for rugby union matches and is the home stadium of RC Narbonne. The stadium is able to hold 12,000 people and was built in 1979.On 12 February, 2016, it hosted a Six Nations Under 20s Championship match between France and Ireland with France winning 34 - 13.

Narbonne is a railway station in Narbonne, Occitanie, France. The station opened on 22 April 1857 and is on the Bordeaux–Sète railway and Narbonne–Portbou railway lines. The station is served by TGV (high speed), Intercités (long distance, also night train) and TER (local) services operated by the SNCF. The line was electrified through Narbonne in 1935. The station is at an important 3-way junction, with both passenger and freight services coming from Toulouse, Nîmes, Perpignan and Spain (via Portbou). Some trains avoid the station, by a curve between the Toulouse and Perpignan lines.

Armissan (French pronunciation: [aʁmisɑ̃] (listen); Occitan: Armissan) is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region of southern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Armissannais or Armissannaises

The siege of Narbonne was a conflict between the Visigothic Foederati of Aquitania and the Western Roman Empire.

Narbonne (, also US: , French: [naʁbɔn]; Occitan: Narbona [naɾˈβunɔ]; Latin: Narbo [ˈna(ː)rboː]; Late Latin: Narbona) is a commune in Southern France in the Occitanie region. It lies 849 km (528 mi) from Paris in the Aude department, of which it is a sub-prefecture. It is located about 15 km (9 mi) from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and was historically a prosperous port. From the 14th century it declined following a change in the course of the river Aude. It is marginally the largest commune in Aude, but the capital of the Aude department is the smaller commune of Carcassonne.

The siege of Narbonne was fought in 737 between the Arab and Berber Muslim forces of Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, Arab Umayyad Muslim governor of Septimania on behalf of al-Andalus, and the Frankish Christian army led by the Carolingian king Charles Martel.