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A. MOLINIER
To what race shall we attribute the foundation of the city of / Carcassonne? We cannot say exactly, so many races having occupied this / part of the valley of the Aude in turn; the first in point of time / was that of the Iberians, that mysterious people, who had colonized / Southern Europe long before the coming of the Aryan race. Without / taking any more account than is necessary regarding the hypothesis of / the etymologists, we may recall the fact that the celebrated William / von Humboldt attaches the vocable _Carcaso_, as well as many / others from the south of Gaul and the north of Spain, to the Iberic / language.