Pagus
The Latin word pagus (plural: pagi) indicates a territorial unit Gallo-Roman smaller than the Civitas.
In the late Antiquity and with the Early middle ages, it acts of a district identical to the Gallo-Roman Cité or to the Germanic gau .
At the time Carolingian, the pagus is placed under the authority of a Count. The pagus indicates sometimes a subdivision of the county. The territorial capacity of old a civitas is often dismembered between several counts who reign on different pagi while the coherence of the Diocèse is maintained on the whole of the civitas . A count can have several pagi under his authority (Comitatus).
Pagus is at the origin of the common noun " Country " and of its derivative paganus " payen" (or since 1762, “pagan”). This last evolution is explained by the later conversion of the inhabitants of the rural pagus compared to the urban populations.
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