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BEziers[bAzyA´] Pronunciation Key, city (1990 pop. 72,362), HErault dept., S France, in Languedoc. A communications and industrial center with an important trade in wines and liqueurs, it has ironworks, breweries, and factories making a great variety of products. An episcopal see from the 4th cent. to 1802, BEziers was involved in numerous religious wars. During the Albigensian crusade (see under Albigenses) it was taken (1209) by Simon de Montfort; a horrible massacre followed. BEziers has a noted cathedral (13th–14th cent.) and some old churches.
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