Poitou-Charentes
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Poitou-Charentes | |
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Country | France |
Dissolved | 2016-01-01 |
Prefecture | Poitiers |
Departments | 4
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ISO 3166 code | FR-T |
NUTS Region | FR5 |
Website | poitou-charentes.fr |
Poitou-Charentes (French pronunciation:
Poitiers was the regional capital. Other important cities were La Rochelle, Niort, Angoulême, Châtellerault, Saintes, Rochefort and Royan.
Poitou-Charentes was merged with Aquitaine and Limousin to form the new administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine on January 1, 2016.
Politics
The
Demographics
In French, the region's residents were known as Picto-Charentais. In 2003, the region ranked 15th out of 26 in population. In area it ranked 12th in size.
Three regional languages, Poitevin, Saintongeais and Occitan (Limousin, Marchois) were spoken by a minority of people in the region.
Southern Poitou-Charentes and
At first, these French immigrants from the rural areas of Poitou-Charentes settled in what is now eastern Canada, and established an agricultural and maritime economy (farming and fishing). This area of the New World was dubbed "Acadia" by the French, after the Greek Arcadia – the idyllic part of the Peloponnesian peninsula in Greece. As an alternate theory, some historians suggest that the name is derived from the indigenous Canadian Mi'kmaq language, in which Cadie means "fertile land".[4] It was renamed Nova Scotia (New Scotland) in the aftermath of the 1755 expulsion of most of the Acadians by the English.
History
Poitou is a historic region in west central France. Poitiers, the capital of the region, is its chief city, although the port of La Rochelle, capital of the province of Aunis, rivals it in economic importance. Farming is important to the economy; wheat, corn and cattle are farmed. Industries produce machinery, chemicals and dairy products.
The region's first known inhabitants, the
In 1152, Poitou came under English control through the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry II (later king of England). The region was reunited with the French crown in 1416 and was a province of France until the Revolution (1789–1795), when it was divided into three departments, Vienne, Deux-Sèvres, and Vendée.
Major communities
References
- ^ "EU regions by GDP, Eurostat". Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- ^ Loi n° 2015-29 du 16 janvier 2015 relative à la délimitation des régions, aux élections régionales et départementales et modifiant le calendrier électoral (in French)
- ^ source: Dr. Carl Brasseaux, director of the Center for Louisiana Studies at The University of Louisiana in Lafayette, LA
- ^ Landry and Lang, p.9
External links
- Poitou-Charentes : starting out from the South West - Official French website (in English)
- (in French) Regional Council Website
- Official Regional Tourist Board website
- Short tourist guide to Poitou-Charentes
- (in French) Site de l'Observatoire Régional de l'Environnement de Poitou-Charentes
- (in French) Site sur la biodiversité en Poitou-Charentes
- (in French) Youth portal for Poitou-Charentes
- Pause Poitou-Charentes - property, lifestyle and leisure website