Comtat-Venaissin , also Comtat or Called Venaissin , former province France and papal enclave, north and northeast of Dauphiné , south of Durance River , to the east of the Provence and to the west of the Rhône limited . It includes the current Department by Vaucluse. The capital was Carpentras. Comtat-Venaissin is a picturesque area whose landscape extends between the foothills of the Alps and the large plains watered by canals fed by the Rhône, Durance and Sorgue rivers.
The Comtat-Venaissin (Comitatus Venassinus), the territory of the Gaulish people known as Cavares, later belonged to the Counts of Provence and then to the Counts of Toulouse . 1218 from Raymond VII. , Count of Toulouse, and 1274 of Philip the Bold ceded to the Pope , it was not until 1791 during the French Revolution united with France .
The city of Avignon , which differed from Comtat-Venaissin in antiquity, became Mid 14th century from Pope Clement VI. Consolidated . Avignon, a bishopric since the 1st century n . Ch. , Became an archbishopric in 1475. Carpentras was a bishopric from 483 to 1805.