CORDES, a town of southern France, in the department of Tarn, 15 m. N.W. of Albi. Pop. (1931), 1,ogr. It was a bastide founded by Raymond VII., count of Toulouse, in 1222, and was named Cordua after the Spanish city Cordova. A large number of houses of the i3th and i4th centuries, with decorated fronts, form its chief attraction. A church of the same periods and remains of the original ramparts are also to be seen.