Editing Barcelonnette (section)

==Toponymy==
Barcelonnette was founded and named in 1231, by [[Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence|Ramon Berenguer IV]], [[Rulers of Provence|Count of Provence]].<ref name="Dauzat">[[Albert Dauzat]] and [[Charles Rostaing]], ''Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France'', Éd. Larousse, 1968, pp. 1693–1694.</ref> While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of [[Barcelona]] in [[Catalonia]], [[Albert Dauzat]] and [[Charles Rostaing]] point out an earlier attestation of the name ''Barcilona'' in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems{{Specify|reason=language not named|date=March 2023}} signifying a mountain, *''bar'' and *''cin'' (the latter of which is also seen in the name of [[Mont Cenis]]).<ref name="Rostaing">[[Charles Rostaing]], ''Essai sur la toponymie de la Provence depuis les origines jusqu'aux invasions barbares'', Laffite Reprints, Marseille, 1973 (1st edition 1950), p 91</ref><ref name="TGF">Ernest Nègre, ''Toponymie générale de la France : étymologie de 35 000 noms de lieux'', Genève : Librairie Droz, 1990. Collection ''Publications romanes et françaises'', volume CVCIII. Volume III : Formations dialectales (suite) ; formations françaises § 30208 § 30208</ref>

In the [[Vivaro-Alpine]] dialect of [[Occitan language|Occitan]], the town is known as ''Barcilona de Provença'' or more rarely ''Barciloneta'' according to the [[Occitan language#Writing system|classical norm]]; under the [[Occitan language#Writing system|Mistralian norm]] it is called ''Barcilouna de Prouvença'' or ''Barcilouneto''. In ''Valéian'' (the dialect of Occitan spoken in the Ubaye Valley), it is called ''Barcilouna de Prouvença'' or ''Barcilounéta''.<ref name="Arnaud-Maurin">François Arnaud, Gabriel Maurin, ''Le langage de la vallée de Barcelonnette'', Paris : Champion, 1920 – Re-edited in 1973, Marseille: Laffitte Reprints</ref><ref name="Fortoul">Jean-Rémy Fortoul, ''Ubaye, la mémoire de mon pays : les gens, les bêtes, les choses, le temps'', Barcelonnette: Sabença de la Valeia/Mane: Alpes de Lumière, 1995. {{ISBN|2-908103-17-6}}; {{ISBN|2-906162-28-0}}</ref> ''Barcino Nova'' is the town's [[Latin language|Latin]] name meaning "new Barcelona"; ''Barcino'' was the Roman name for Barcelona in Catalonia from its foundation by Emperor [[Augustus]] in 10&nbsp;BC,<ref name="Barcelone">[http://www.bcn.cat/historia/pag/capitols/cap_02/en/capitol_02.htm Chapter 2: Colonia Julia Augusta Faventia Paterna Barcino, Romans at Mons Taber], Town Hall of Barcelona</ref> and the name was changed to ''Barcelona'' only during the [[Middle Ages]].

The inhabitants of the town are called ''Barcelonnettes'', or ''Vilandroises'' in Valéian.<ref name="Arnaud-Maurin"/>