LLIVIA

town and enclave of Spanish territory in the French dpartement of Pyrnes-Orientales, administratively part of the Spanish Catalan province of Gerona. The Roman Julia Livia, it lay within the ancient district of Cerdagne, or Cerdaa (q.v.) (the upper basin of the Ro Segre), of which it was capital until 1177. In 1659, by the Treaty of the Pyrenees, 33 Cerdagne villages were ceded to France, and the political enclave was created with a neutral road across French territory to Puigcerd, a Spanish fortified town. Notorious during the 17th and 18th centuries as a smuggling centre, it now trades in agricultural products. Pop. (1981) 921.