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Pallars

Pallars is one of the historical Catalan counties, collindant with the county of Ribagorça and the county of Urgell. Its territory was between the Pyrenees and the Montsec mountains, that is, the current comarques of Pallars Sobirà and Pallars Jussà. The historical capital was Sort.