☼ Cerca-màrfegues per a la Catalunya Nord / Couchsurfing through Pyrenees Orientales.
★ Rosselló is the is the original name, as much as the Kunta Kinte's one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Catalonia "Roussillon" in French and from the French name to the English one.
† The most ancient Middle Age Parliament was created in Toluges, 10 km. from Perpinyà ("Perpignan") by a Catalan Abbot, Oliba. About 50 years before than the Normand (English) first Parliament in Aquitania, Occitania. The same name itself "Parliament" cames from the Catalan (or Occitan) word "Parlament" because Gasconha/Gascoigne (close Catalonia) was a part of Normand Kingdoms. “Pau i Treva”: El parlamentarisme medieval europeu començà a Catalunya, a Toluges, a la vora de Perpinyà, de la mà de l’Abat Oliba
~♥ Rosselló is only one of the Five Catalan (+ Conflent, Vallespir, Cerdanya and Capcir) counties or countrysides illegally given by Madrid to Paris after a long War, linked with "30 Years War" (Religion Wars in Central Europe)
These five counties are called firstly by Paris "Roussillon", and more bureaucratically for hidding their roots, "Pyrénées Orientales".