Occitanism

English

Etymology

From Occitan +‎ -ism.

Noun

Occitanism (uncountable)

1. Occitan regionalism; the belief that the Occitania region of France should be given autonomy or independence.
   • 1987 April, Vera Mark, “In Search of the Occitan Village: Regionalist Ideologies and the Ethnography of Southern France”, in Anthropological Quarterly, volume 60, number 2, Washington, D.C.: George Washington University, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 64–70:

     This article examines how these three scholars use the term "Occitan" and ideologies of Occitanism to characterize southern France, and how such ideologies reflect the intellectual traditions in which they write.

2. Occitan studies.

Related terms

• Occitanist

See also

• Catalanism