Brest (French pronunciation: [bʁɛst] ; Breton pronunciation: [bʀest]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay...
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27 cantons of the Finistère department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: Brest-1 Brest-2 Brest-3...
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The arrondissement of Brest, sometimes referred to as greater Brest, or the greater Brest region, is an arrondissement of France in the Finistère department...
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Quémènès (redirect from Île de Quéménès)
It is administered as part of the commune of Le Conquet, St-Renan Canton, Brest Arrondissement, in Finistère Department. In 1292, two sailors, one Norman...
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with the creation of the École centrale de Nantes in 1919, the University of Nantes in 1961, the ESC Bretagne Brest in 1962, the University of Western Brittany...
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hydrographique et océanographique de la marine (2000). Albums des pavillons nationaux et des marques distinctives (in French). Brest: SHOM. ISBN 2-11-088247-6...
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extreme west of Brittany. Its prefecture is Quimper and its largest city is Brest. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090. The present department consists...
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declared independence and the Russian Governorate of Livonia. In the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on 3 March 1918, Soviet Russia accepted the loss of the Courland...
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on seismic risk in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 2010 (in French) Paris, Nice, Strasbourg, Brest Data from the Station at Saint Auban from...
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Île-Molène, a commune in Saint-Renan Canton, Brest Arrondissement, Finistère Department. The island is small, less than 1 by 0.9 km (0.56 mi), and covers under...
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Navy. She took part in the battles of the French Revolutionary Wars in the Brest squadron, served in the Caribbean in 1803, and duelled with HMS Victory...
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2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −16.8 °C (1.8 °F) on 17 January 1985. The canton of Athis-Mons has 2 communes (the other is Paray-Vieille-Poste)...
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Herzegovina contains a fleur-de-lis alongside the Croatian chequy. Fleurs also appear in the flags and arms of many cantons, municipalities, cities and...
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first round. In 2008, he ran in the Canton of Sarcelles-Nord-Est, earning 3.48% of the vote. Jean-Michel Cadiot died on 1 June 2020 at the age of 67. Quand...
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divided into 6 cantons (populations as of 2019): Canton of Rennes-1 (40,588 inhabitants) Canton of Rennes-2 (42,446 inhabitants) Canton of Rennes-3 (43...
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city of Ajaccio is one commune, but it contains four cantons, Cantons 1–4, and a fraction of Canton 5. The latter contains three other communes: Bastelicaccia...
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Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. It is the seat of the Canton of Calvi, which contains Calvi and one other commune, Lumio. Calvi is also...
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Ushant (redirect from Île de Keller)
air and sea. Passenger ferries of the Penn Ar Bed company operate from Brest and Le Conquet year-round, and also from Camaret in summer, stopping at...
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Cayenne (redirect from Isle de Cayenne)
depuis 1876)". Retrieved 2 April 2022. "Recensement de la population de 2012 – Individus localisés au canton-ou-ville en 2012". INSEE. Archived from the original...
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Landerneau (redirect from Pont de Rohan)
divides the Breton provinces of Cornouaille and Léon, 22 km (14 mi) east of Brest. The name is from Lan Terneo and can mean "(religious) enclosure of St Ténénan...
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Scheldeprijs, Belgium Brabantse Pijl, Belgium (1.HC in 2011) GP de Denain, France GP of Aargau Canton, Switzerland RideLondon–Surrey Classic, United Kingdom...
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twenty-seven cantons and 163 communes. As of 1 January 2014, there were seven intercommunalities: Four agglomeration communities: Communauté d'agglomération de Sophia...
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11 cantons, 92 communes, and has a population of 230,386 (1999 census). La-Roche-sur-Yon is chief town of two cantons, Canton of La Roche-sur-Yon-1 and...
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Roissy-en-France. Retrieved on September 3, 2016. Paris, Nice, Strasbourg, Brest "Fiche Climatologique Statistiques 1991-2020 et records" (PDF) (in French)...
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Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (redirect from Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, Chevalier d' Entrecasteaux)
served as the hydrographer of the expedition. When the expedition left Brest on 28 September 1791, Entrecasteaux was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral...
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Lille Metro (redirect from Métro de Lille)
"regional hospital centre") to Quatre Cantons via Gare de Lille Flandres. While line one opened in April 1983 between 4 Cantons and République; it was extended...
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Flag of Greece (category Flags with cantons)
equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white. There is a blue canton in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolises...
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his name. She was ordered on the 1 November 1925 as a croiseurs legers (light cruiser) from the Arsenal de Brest (Brest Naval Yard). She would be nearly...
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it ran about thirty candidates in the 1985 cantonal elections and won on average 4.2%. Results in the Brest area, however, had considerably declined. The...
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