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Occitan nationalism is a social and political movement inOccitania. Nationalists seekself-determination, greaterautonomy or the creation of a sovereign state of Occitania. The basis of nationalism is linguistic and cultural although currently theOccitan language is spoken by a minority within the language area. Therefore, it has minority language status under the law in France.
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The Occitan political movement for self-government has existed since the beginning of the 20th century and particularly since thepost-war era. Occitan nationalism emerged as a sense of grievance ofSouthern France caused by the economic and energy restructuring undertaken by theGaullists during the 1960s, which would have given priority to the more prosperous northern regions of France.
Subsequently, from 1968 on, Occitan cultural revival, combined with the economic protest, given the results in 1970 in a nationalist claim that it considered Occitania was an internal colony of the French state.[1] The movement remains negligible in electoral and political terms. However, the regional Elections in 2010 allowed thePartit Occitan to enter the regional councils ofAquitaine,Auvergne,Midi-Pyrénées, andProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
The following table shows the size and population of the territories claimed by the Occitan nationalism is as follows:
| Country | Territory claimed | Area (km²) | Population (year) |
|---|---|---|---|
Spain |  Aran Valley (Catalonia) | 634 | 9,993 (2014) |
France | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (except forAllier and formerRhône-Alpes, but includesArdèche andDrôme) | 30,372 | 1,829,328 (2013) |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine (exceptFrench Basque Country and formerPoitou-Charentes) | 55,283 | 3,755,705 (2013) | |
| Occitania (exceptPyrénées-Orientales) | 68,608 | 5,221,173 (2013) | |
 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 31,400 | 4,953,675 (2013) | |
Italy |  Guardia Piemontese (Calabria) | 21 | 1,895 (2015) |
 (Liguria) (Piedmont)Occitan Valleys | 4,500 | 174,476 (2013) | |
 Monaco | 2 | 38,400 (2015) | |
| Occitania | 190,820 | 15,984,645 | |
