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Carpentras

Carpentras is a town in Provence, south-eastern France, the capital of the papal Comtat Venaissin from 1320 until 1791. Its Jewish community, one of the four of the Pope's Jews, lived in an enclosed street, and its synagogue, founded in 1367, is the oldest still in use in France. The town became part of France at the Revolution.

Carpentras
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Comtat Venaissin

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