The
County of Pallars or
Pallás (, ; ) was a
de facto independent petty state, nominally within the
Carolingian Empire and then
West Francia during the ninth and tenth centuries, perhaps one of the
Catalan counties, originally part of the
Marca Hispanica in the ninth century. It was coterminous with the upper
Noguera Pallaresa valley from the crest of the
Pyrenees to the village of
Tremp, comprising the Valle de Àneu, Valle de Cardós, Valle Ferrera, the right bank of the
Noguera Ribagorzana, and the valley of the Flamicell. It roughly corresponded with the historic region of Catalonia called Pallars. Its chief city was
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