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Ariège

/a.ʁjɛʒ/

proper noun/a.ʁjɛʒ/

Ariège (a department of Occitania, France); Ariège (a right tributary of the Garonne in the departments of Ariège and Haute-Garonne, Occitania, France)

The department is named after the river; said to be from Latin aurigera (“bearing gold”), referring to the Gauls' practice of panning gold.