Pyrenees
“Et pour ce qui concerne les Païs & Places que les Armes de France ont occupez en cette guerre, du coſté d’Eſpagne : Comme l’on auroit convenu en la Negociation commencée à Madrid en l’année 1656. ſur laquelle eſt fondé le preſent Traitté, que les Monts Pyrenées, qui avoient anciennement diviſé les Gaules, des Eſpagnes, ſeront auſſi dorénavant la diviſion des deux meſmes Royaumes ; [...]” — And with regard to the countries and places which the arms of France have occupied in this war on the side of Spain: as had been agreed in the negotiations begun at Madrid in the year 1656, upon which the present treaty is founded, that the Pyrenean Mountains, which formerly divided Gaul from Spain, shall henceforth also form the division between the said two kingdoms; […]
Synonyms: Pyrénées
Inherited from Middle French mons Pyrenees, from Latin Pȳrēnaeī montēs (literally “Pyrenean mountains”).