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Saintes, Charente-Maritime

Index Saintes, Charente-Maritime

Saintes is a commune and historic town in southwestern France, in the Charente-Maritime department of which it is a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. [1]

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A10 autoroute

The A10, also called L'Aquitaine, is an Autoroute in France, running for 549 km (341 mi) from the A6 south of Paris to the A630 at Bordeaux.

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A837 autoroute

The A837 autoroute is a motorway in western France it is also known as the Autoroute des Oiseaux.

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Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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Amphitheatre

An amphitheatre or amphitheater is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports.

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Ancien Régime

The Ancien Régime (French for "old regime") was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (circa 15th century) until 1789, when hereditary monarchy and the feudal system of French nobility were abolished by the.

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Angoulême

Angoulême (Poitevin-Saintongeais: Engoulaeme; Engoleime) is a commune, the capital of the Charente department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France.

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Arch of Germanicus

The Arch of Germanicus is an ancient Roman arch in Saintes, Charente-Maritime in France.

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Autoroutes of France

The Autoroute, or highway, system in France consists largely of toll roads (76% of the total).

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Occitan: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

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Campanian

The Campanian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous epoch (or, in chronostratigraphy: the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous series).

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Cavea

In Roman times the cavea (Latin for "enclosure") referred to the seating sections of Roman theatres and amphitheatres.

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Charente (river)

The Charente (Charanta) is a long river in southwestern France.

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Charente-Maritime

Charente-Maritime is a department on the southwestern coast of France named after the Charente River.

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Chemins de fer de l'État

The Chemins de fer de l'État ("State Railways"), often referred to in France as the Réseau de l'État ("State Network"), was an early state-owned French railway company.

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Cognac, France

Cognac is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

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Communes of France

The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Communes of the Charente-Maritime department

The following is a list of the 465 communes of the Charente-Maritime department of France.

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Coniacian

The Coniacian is an age or stage in the geologic timescale.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Cuevas del Almanzora

Cuevas del Almanzora is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.

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Eutropius of Saintes

Saint Eutropius of Saintes (Saint Eutrope) is venerated as the first bishop of Saintes, France.

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Flint

Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert.

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Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan

Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), better known as Madame de Montespan, was the most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XIV of France, by whom she had seven children.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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France 3 Aquitaine

France 3 Aquitaine is one of France 3's regional services broadcasting to people in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.It was founded in 1962 as FR3 Aquitaine.The service is headquartered in Bordeaux,the city of the region.The channel is available in French,Basque, and Occitan audio tracks.France 3 Aquitaine also produces content.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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French Towns and Lands of Art and History

Since 1985, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication has pursued a policy of preserving and promoting France's heritage.

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Fungiculture

Fungiculture is the process of producing food, medicine, and other products by the cultivation of mushrooms and other fungi.

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Gare de Saintes

Gare de Saintes is a railway station serving the town Saintes, Charente-Maritime department, western France.

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Gémozac

Gémozac is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

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Intercités

Intercités (before September 2009: Corail Intercités) is a brand name used by France’s national railway company, SNCF, to denote non high speed services on the 'classic' network in France.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element with symbol Fe (from ferrum) and atomic number 26.

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Jonzac

Jonzac is a commune of the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

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La Rochelle

La Rochelle is a city in western France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Liberty (goddess)

Liberty is a loose term in English for the goddess or personification of the concept of liberty, and is represented by the Roman Goddess Libertas, by Marianne, the national symbol of France, and by many others.

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Limoges

Limoges (Occitan: Lemòtges or Limòtges) is a city and commune, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department and was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region in west-central France.

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Lyon

Lyon (Liyon), is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France.

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Maastrichtian

The Maastrichtian is, in the ICS geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous epoch or Upper Cretaceous series, the Cretaceous period or system, and of the Mesozoic era or erathem.

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Mannerism

Mannerism, also known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520 and lasted until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace it.

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Marennes, Charente-Maritime

Marennes is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

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Mediolanum Santonum

Mediolanum Santonum was a Roman town in Gallia Aquitania, now Saintes.

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Mortagne-sur-Gironde

Mortagne-sur-Gironde is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

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Nantes

Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt) is a city in western France on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast.

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Niort

Niort is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.

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Nivelles

Nivelles (Nijvel) is a Walloon city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant.

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Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Nouvelle-Aquitaine ("New Aquitaine"; Nòva Aquitània; Akitania Berria; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Novéle-Aguiéne) is the largest administrative region in France, located in the southwest of the country.

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Oléron

Île d'Oléron is an island off the Atlantic coast of France (due west of Rochefort), on the southern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait.

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Paleogene

The Paleogene (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Mya.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Poitiers

Poitiers is a city on the Clain river in west-central France.

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Prefecture

A prefecture (from the Latin Praefectura) is an administrative jurisdiction or subdivision in any of various countries and within some international church structures, and in antiquity a Roman district governed by an appointed prefect.

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Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée (28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was an important French writer in the school of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story.

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Pyrenees

The Pyrenees (Pirineos, Pyrénées, Pirineus, Pirineus, Pirenèus, Pirinioak) is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between Spain and France.

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Quartz

Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2.

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Regional rail

Regional rail, also known as local trains and stopping trains, are passenger rail services that operate between towns and cities.

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Rochefort, Charente-Maritime

Rochefort is a commune in southwestern France, a port on the Charente estuary.

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Roman aqueduct

The Romans constructed aqueducts throughout their Empire, to bring water from outside sources into cities and towns.

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Roman roads

Roman roads (Latin: viae Romanae; singular: via Romana meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

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Royan

Royan (in Saintongeais dialect) is a commune in the south-west of France, located in the department of Charente-Maritime (Nouvelle-Aquitaine region).

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Saint-Hilaire-de-Villefranche

Saint-Hilaire-de-Villefranche is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

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Saint-Jean-d'Angély

Saint-Jean-d'Angély is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

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Sainte-Marie-des-Dames

The Abbey of Sainte-Marie-des-Dames (Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes) was the first Benedictine abbey for women in Saintes in Charente-Maritime in France.

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Saintonge

Saintonge, historically spelled Xaintonge and Xainctonge, is a former province of France located on the west central Atlantic coast.

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Saintongeais dialect

Saintongeais (saintonjhais) is a dialect of Poitevin spoken halfway down the western coast of France in the former provinces of Saintonge, Aunis and Angoumois, all of which have been incorporated into the current departments of Charente and Charente-Maritime as well as in parts of their neighbouring departments of Gironde and a town in Dordogne.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 40,302, at the confluence of the rivers Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne.

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Santones

The Santones or Santoni or Santii (Σάντονες, Σάντονοι, Σάντωνες, Santons) were a tribe of ancient Gaul located in the modern region of Saintonge and around the city of Saintes, city to which they gave their name.

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Santonian

The Santonian is an age in the geologic timescale or a chronostratigraphic stage.

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Saujon

Saujon is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

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Sèvres

Sèvres is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Secondary education in France

In France, secondary education is in two stages.

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Sensitive urban zone

A sensitive urban zone (Zone urbaine sensible, ZUS) is an urban area in France defined by the authorities to be a high-priority target for city policy, taking into consideration local circumstances related to the problems of its residents.

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Stage (stratigraphy)

In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition.

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Subprefecture

Subprefecture is an administrative division of a country that is below prefecture or province.

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Subprefectures in France

In France, a subprefecture (sous-préfecture) is the administrative center of a departmental arrondissement that does not contain the prefecture for its department.

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TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine

TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the regional rail network serving the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.

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Thermae

In ancient Rome, thermae (from Greek θερμός thermos, "hot") and balneae (from Greek βαλανεῖον balaneion) were facilities for bathing.

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Timbuktu

Timbuktu, also spelt Tinbuktu, Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo (Tombouctou; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu), is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River.

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Triumphal arch

A triumphal arch is a monumental structure in the shape of an archway with one or more arched passageways, often designed to span a road.

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TV7 Bordeaux

TV7 Bordeaux is a local television channel in Bordeaux, France.

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University of Houston

The University of Houston (UH) is a state research university and the flagship institution of the University of Houston System.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.

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Vladimir, Russia

Vladimir (a) is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, to the east of Moscow.

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Xanten

Xanten (Lower Franconian Santen) is a town in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saintes,_Charente-Maritime

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