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    Angoumois (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ɡumwa]), historically the County of Angoulême, was a county and province of France, originally inferior to the parent...
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    households or countries presently free of Angoumois grain moth infestations. Thus, constant protection against the Angoumois grain moth is required for grain up...
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  • French crown until 1308. By the terms of the Treaty of Brétigny (1360) the Angoumois, then ruled by the counts of Angoulême, was ceded to King Edward III of...
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    of the General Government of Saintonge and Angoumois [fr] (Gouvernement-Général de Saintonge et Angoumois). Following the decree dividing France into...
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    La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois (French pronunciation: [la ʁɔʃfuko ɑ̃.n‿ɑ̃ɡumwa], literally La Rochefoucauld in Angoumois; Occitan: La Ròcha Focaud d'Engolmés)...
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    Cognac, France (category Angoumois)
    French province of Angoumois. In 1790, following the French Revolution that began the year before, the provinces were abolished and Angoumois became part of...
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    province of Limousin and parts of Marche, Berry, Auvergne, Poitou and Angoumois Lorraine Lorraine German: Lothringen Lorraine Franconian: Lottringe 41...
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    (modern Angoulême) was the oppidum of the ancient people of Angoumois. Coins found in Angoumois were mostly Lemovice. Excavations, particularly of the southern...
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    Angoulême (category Angoumois)
    fifteen kilometres (9.3 miles) from east to west. Formerly the capital of Angoumois in the Ancien Régime, Angoulême was a fortified town for a long time,...
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    The grand tour of France was a royal progress around France by Charles IX of France, set up by his mother Catherine de' Medici to show him his kingdom...
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    Other regional names include cosse de Nau in Berry, mouchon de Nau in Angoumois, chuquet in Normandy, souche in the Île de France, and tréfouiau in the...
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    Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the former province of Angoumois, and western and southern portions of Saintonge. Prior to the creation...
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  • Normandy, Perche, Beauce, Brittany, Maine, Anjou, Touraine, Poitou, Aunis, Angoumois, Saintonge, and Gascony were the first Europeans to permanently colonize...
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    his honor in 1880. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was born in Angoulême, Angoumois county, France, to Henry Coulomb, an inspector of the royal demesne originally...
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    from western and southwestern France, primarily from Poitou, Aquitaine, Angoumois, and Saintonge. Over 85% of these (47% of the total), were former residents...
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    Charente-Maritime, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne. It included the historical provinces of Angoumois, Aunis, Saintonge and Poitou. Poitiers was the regional capital. Other...
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    sovereignty of the duchy of Guyenne, together with Aunis, Saintonge, Angoumois, and Poitou. Soon after, the victories of Bertrand du Guesclin and Gaston...
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    Picardy (Amiens) 15. Anjou (Angers) 16. Provence (Aix-en-Provence) 17. Angoumois (Angoulême) 18. Bourbonnais (Moulins) 19. Marche (Guéret) 20. Brittany...
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    caused 40,000 deaths in the regions of Aquitaine, Limousin, Périgord and Angoumois in France. In Hesse, in 1596, Wendelin Thelius was one of the first to...
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    lie the Charentes, which correspond to the former provinces of Aunis, Angoumois and Saintonge. Aunis is not unlike the landscape of Niortais, with large...
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    Burgundy (Dijon) Picardy (Amiens) Anjou (Angers) Provence (Aix-en-Provence) Angoumois (Angoulême) Bourbonnais (Moulins) Marche (Guéret) Brittany (Rennes) Maine...
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    Huguenots at this time resided in the regions of Guienne, Saintonge-Aunis-Angoumois and Poitou. Montpellier was among the most important of the 66 villes...
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    and Ennoguen de Vitré. He was engaged to the daughter of the lord of Angoumois but gave up his wedding and travelled to Palestine after learning of the...
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    La Rochefoucauld, Charente (category Angoumois)
    January 2019, it was merged into the new commune La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois. It lies very close to the line which delineated occupied France and Vichy...
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    of the sky" in 1999 and 7 months "to resuscitate the great King from Angoumois." But the phrase d'effraieur (of terror) in fact occurs nowhere in the...
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    either 12 or 14 at the time of their marriage). On the other hand, the Angoumois lands that came with her were strategically vital to John: by marrying...
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    the kingdom had been diminished by the loss of Poitou, Saintonge and Angoumois in the northwest of the region, which had been given to Rainulf I, count...
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    Tenure 24 January 1527 – 21 December 1549 Born 11 April 1492 Angoulême, Angoumois, France Died 21 December 1549(1549-12-21) (aged 57) Odos, Gascony, France...
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    Agenais, Périgord, Limousin, Quercy, Bigorre, the countship of Gauré, Angoumois, Rouergue, Montreuil-sur-Mer, Ponthieu, Calais, Sangatte, Ham and the...
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    his numerous estates spread across Brittany, Anjou, Poitou, Maine and Angoumois. Medievalist Philippe Contamine points out that Rais was "Breton, Poitevin...
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