Poitou (UK: /ˈpwʌtuː/ PWUH-too, US: /pwɑːˈtuː/ pwah-TOO, French: [pwatu]; Latin: Pictaviensis, Pictavia; Poitevin: Poetou) was a province of west-central...
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The Baudet du Poitou, also called the Poitevin or Poitou donkey, is a French breed of donkey. It is one of the largest breeds, and jacks (donkey stallions)...
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Poitou-Charentes (French pronunciation: [pwatu ʃaʁɑ̃t] ; Occitan: Peitau-Charantas; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Poetou-Chérentes) was an administrative region...
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Nouvelle-Aquitaine (redirect from Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes)
The region was created in 2014 by the merging of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes in a territorial reform. Nouvelle-Aquitaine has an area of 84...
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the region composed of Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes and Limousin was temporarily called Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes. However, the combined region...
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The Poitou goat (French: Chèvre Poitevine) is a dairy goat breed from western France. With a history dating back to 1800, the breed is named for the Poitou...
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Look up Poitou in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Poitou is a former and historical province of France. Poitou may also refer to: County of Poitou, a former...
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The County of Poitou (Latin comitatus Pictavensis) was a historical region of France, consisting of the three sub-regions of Vendée, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne...
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Count of Poitiers (redirect from Count of Poitou)
Count of Poitiers (French: Comte de Poitiers, Latin: Comes Pictaviensis; or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of Aquitaine)...
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The Seuil du Poitou (literally "Poitou's Threshold") is a geological denomination for an area in western central France where the Paris (Northeast) and...
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Miss Poitou-Charentes is a French beauty pageant which selects a representative for the Miss France national competition from the region of Poitou-Charentes...
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Devon colic (redirect from Poitou colic)
symptoms was described from Poitou in western France in a work of 1616 by François Citois. It was known in English sources as Poitou colic. It was likewise...
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William FitzEmpress (redirect from William X of Poitou)
William FitzEmpress (22 July 1136 – 30 January 1164) or William Longespee was the youngest of the three sons of Empress Matilda and Geoffrey Plantagenet...
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Chabichou (redirect from Chabichou du Poitou)
Chabichou (French pronunciation: [ʃabiʃu]; also known as Chabichou du Poitou) is a traditional semi-soft, unpasteurized, natural-rind French goat cheese...
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Agnes of Poitou (c. 1025 – 14 December 1077) was the queen of Germany from 1043 and empress of the Holy Roman Empire from 1046 until 1056 as the wife of...
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William IX, Count of Poitiers (redirect from William IX of Poitou)
William (17 August 1153 – 1156) was the first son of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was born in Normandy on the same day...
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Roger the Poitevin (redirect from Roger de Montgomery of Poitou)
Roger the Poitevin or Roger de Poitou (mid-1060s – before 1140) was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat possessing large holdings both in England and through his...
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William V, Duke of Aquitaine (redirect from William III of Poitou)
969 – 31 January 1030) was duke of Aquitaine (as William V) and count of Poitou (as William II or III) from 990 until his death. Upon the death of the emperor...
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Ebalus, Duke of Aquitaine (section Count of Poitou)
935), was Count of Poitou and Duke of Aquitaine on two occasions: from 890 to 892; and then from 902 until his death in 935 (Poitou) and from 928 until...
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refer to: From or related to Poitou From or related to the town of Poitiers Poitevin dialect, the language spoken in the Poitou Poitevin horse, a breed of...
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William X, Duke of Aquitaine (redirect from William VIII of Poitou)
called the Saint, was Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, and Count of Poitou (as William VIII) from 1126 to 1137. William was the son of William IX by...
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located within the communes of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou and Jaunay-Clan in the Vienne department of Poitou-Charentes, near the city of Poitiers. This will...
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William III, Duke of Aquitaine (redirect from William I of Poitou)
959 and Duke of Aquitaine from 962 to his death. He was also the Count of Poitou (as William I) from 935 and Count of Auvergne from 950. The primary sources...
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Vendeuvre-du-Poitou (French pronunciation: [vɑ̃dœvʁ dy pwatu], literally Vendeuvre of the Poitou) is a former commune in the Vienne department in the...
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Rochefort, Charente-Maritime (redirect from Rochefort, Poitou-Charentes)
located in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2015: Poitou-Charentes). Rochefort lies on the river Charente, close to its outflow into...
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Chasseneuil-du-Poitou (French pronunciation: [ʃasnœj dy pwatu], literally Chasseneuil of Poitou) is a commune in the Vienne department, administrative...
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Marais Poitevin (redirect from Poitou Marsh)
marshland in the former province of Poitou in western France. It is a remnant of what was the former Gulf of Poitou [fr]. The western zone near the sea...
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Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (redirect from Alfonso of Poitou)
Alphonse (11 November 1220 – 21 August 1271) was the Count of Poitou from 1225 and Count of Toulouse (as such called Alphonse II) from 1249. As count of...
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William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (redirect from William VII of Poitou)
William IX (Occitan: Guilhèm de Peitieus or Guilhem de Poitou, French: Guillaume de Poitiers; 22 October 1071 – 10 February 1126), called the Troubadour...
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William VII, Duke of Aquitaine (redirect from William V of Poitou)
(Aigret) or the Bold (le Hardi), was the duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitou (as William V) between 1039 and his death, following his half-brother Odo...
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