(the ancient Narbonensis Prima), an old province of the S. of France, of which Toulouse was the capital, now forming the departments of Haute-Loire, Lozère, Ardèche, Gard, Hérault, Aude, and Tarn, the greater part of Haute-Garonne, and a part of Tarn-et-Garonne. As a Roman province, it enjoyed the freedom of Italy. It formed part of Gallia Narbonensis, but, in the middle ages, was known as Septimania from the seven cathedral churches which it contained. From the hands of the Romans, it passed into the possession of the Goths; and, being wrested from them, it was occupied by the Saracens till 725, when they were expelled by Charles Martel. It afterwards came under the sway of Philip the Bold, and became a part of the French kingdom in 1361. During the old Bourbon monarchy, Languedoc had a kind of parliament of its own, of which the archbishop of Narbonne was the perpetual president. The canal of Languedoc is 153 miles in length, commencing in the Garonne, near Toulouse, and terminating in the Lake of Thau and the Mediterranean. See FRANCE.