| Commune of Lorient | | Country | France | | Région | Bretagne | | Département | Morbihan
(sous-préfecture) | | Arrondissement | Lorient | | Canton | Chief town of 3 cantons | | Intercommunality | Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Lorient | Mayor
Term of office | Norbert Métairie (PS)
2001-2008 | | Land area¹ | 17.48 km² | Population²
(1999) | 59,189 | Population density
(1999) | 3386 pers./km² | | Longitude | 3.45W | | Latitude | 47.76N | | Altitude | average:
minimum:
maximum: | | INSEE Code | | | Postal code | 56100 | 1 French Land Register data, which exclude lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers.
2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personnel). Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ...
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Lorient is a commune and a seaport of Brittany, France, in the Morbihan département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. Population: city: 61,844; urban area: 186,144. Places with the name LOrient Lorient a place in France LOrient a part of Le Chenit in Switzerland Category: Disambiguation ...
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...
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Traditional coat of arms This article is about the historical duchy and French province, as well as the cultural area of Brittany. ...
Morbihan is a département in the northwest of France named after the Morbihan (small sea in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastline. ...
Template:France divisions levels, Junkyard Willie The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ...
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History
At the beginning of the 17th century, merchants who were doing business with India had established warehouses in Port-Louis. They later built additional ones across the bay in 1628, at the location which later became Lorient. Events March 1 - writs were issued in February 1628 by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date. ...
Later, the French East India Company, founded in 1664 and chartered by King Louis XIV, established shipyards there, thus giving an impetus to the development of the city. The French East India Company (French Compagnie des Indes Orientales) was a commercial enterprise, founded in 1664 to compete with the British and Dutch East India companies. ...
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Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638–September 1, 1715), reigned as King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death at the age of 77. ...
Small shipyard in KlaksvÃk (Faroe Islands), reparing fishing vessels Dockyards and shipyards are places which repair and build ships. ...
The place was called L'Orient (the Orient in French).
Lorient housed a German submarine base during World War II; although the city was heavily damaged by Allied bombing raids, the base survived through the end of the war. As they couldn't destroy the Base, the Allies decided to bomb the City, on purpose, to cut the supplying of the U-Boats. No gasoline, no food, no torpedoes... and it was impossible for those submarines to go to the Atlantic. Between the 14 of January 1943 and the 17 of February 1943 500 explosive bombs and more than 60000 incendiary bombs fell down on the town. Lorient was destroyed at more than 90%. German UC-1 class World War I submarine A model of Gunter Priens Unterseeboot 47 (U-47), German WWII Type VII diesel-electric hunter-killer (SSK) submarine Typhoon class ballistic-missile carrying (SSBN) submarine, compared to a man USS Virginia, a Virginia-class nuclear attack (SSN) submarine A submarine...
Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II...
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Today The former submarine base of Keroman is open to the public, you can visit it all year. During the tour you can see the different pens of the block K3 and go through the roof (3,40m to 7m thick) to a former anti aircraft defence tower. From it you've got an incredible view of the harbour and of the former head quarter of Karl Dönitz in Lorient. (help· info) (pronounced ) (September 16, 1891 – December 24, 1980) was a naval leader in Germany during World War II. Dönitz was born near Berlin. ...
Geography Lorient is located by the Atlantic Ocean.
Miscellaneous Lorient was the birthplace of Jules Simon (1814-1896), statesman and philosopher. Jules Simon, French politician Jules François Simon (December 27, 1814 - June 8, 1896) was a French statesman and philosopher. ...
Lorient is the home of a major Celtic music festival, the Festival Interceltique de Lorient. Celtic music is a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Western Europe. ...
The Festival Interceltique de Lorient (fr) or Gouelioù Etrekeltiek An Oriant (br) was founded in Lorient, Brittany in 1971. ...
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The Festival Interceltique de Lorient (fr) or Gouelioù Etrekeltiek An Oriant (br) was founded in Lorient, Brittany in 1971. ...
External links - City council website (in French)
- Visiting Lorient
- Festival Interceltique de Lorient
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