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Typical late spring landscape in the Morvan
Typical late spring landscape in the Morvan
Typical early autumn landscape in the Morvan
Typical early autumn landscape in the Morvan

Morvan was also the legendary chief of Léon, in Breton folktales. [1] Morvan's syndrome is a disorder of the brain's potassium levels. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 529 pixelsFull resolution (1792 × 1184 pixel, file size: 475 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Landscape, Morvan, France File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 529 pixelsFull resolution (1792 × 1184 pixel, file size: 475 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Landscape, Morvan, France File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 529 pixelsFull resolution (1792 × 1184 pixel, file size: 532 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Landscape, Morvan, France File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 529 pixelsFull resolution (1792 × 1184 pixel, file size: 532 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Landscape, Morvan, France File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... This article is about the movie. ... Breton can refer to: Brittany, as an adjective for this historical province of France The Breton language, a Celtic language spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany and Loire-Atlantique A Breton person, part of a Brythonic ethnic group inhabiting the region of Brittany André Breton (1896-1966), French... Morvans syndrome (or fibrillary chorea) is a rare disease named after nineteenth century French physician Augustin Marie Morvan (1819-1897). ...



The Morvan is a mountainous massif lying just to the west of the Côte d'Or escarpment in Burgundy, France. It is a northerly extension of the Massif Central and is of Variscan age. It is composed of granites and basalts and formed a promontory extending northwards into the Jurassic sea. The Côte dOr is a limestone escarpment in Burgundy, France. ... In geology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves an elevation differential, often involving high cliffs. ... Coat of arms of the second Duchy of Burgundy and later of the French province of Burgundy Burgundy (French: ; German: ) is a historic region of France, inhabited in turn by Celts (Gauls), Romans (Gallo-Romans), and various Germanic peoples, most importantly the Burgundians and the Franks; the former gave their... France, viewed from the NASA Shuttle Topography Radar Mission. ... The Variscan or Hercynian orogeny is a geologic mountain-building event recorded in the European mountains and hills called the Variscan Belt. ... Close-up of granite from Yosemite National Park, valley of the Merced River Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory. ... Basalt Basalt (IPA: ) is a common gray to black extrusive volcanic rock. ... The term promontory has several similar meanings in English, including geographical names: A promontory is a prominent mass of land which overlooks lower lying land or a body of water (e. ... The Jurassic Period is a major unit of the geologic timescale that extends from about 199. ...


Music

The Morvan has a strong folk musical tradition. It uses musical ideas from lots of other cultures and combine them to make their own. See Music of France and Bagpipes. France has long been considered a centre for European art and music. ... A piper playing the Great Highland Bagpipe. ...


The regional park

At its heart nowadays, is the Parc Régional du Morvan. Its main town is Château-Chinon on the D978 between Nevers and Autun. Several of its valleys have been dammed to form reservoirs. Château-Chinon is the name of two communes of the Nièvre département, in France: Château-Chinon (Ville) Château-Chinon (Campagne) The two towns are neighboring each other. ... Palais Ducal Nevers is a commune of central France, the préfecture (capital) of the Nièvre département, in the former province of Nivernais. ... Autun is a town in the Saône-et-Loire département in Burgundy, France, and has a history which dates back to Roman times. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Blowdown Lake in the mountains near Pemberton, British Columbia A lake (from Latin lacus) is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size contained on a body of land. ...


External links

This is a relatively unknown place internationally, so most information is in French.

  • A summary of The Morvan with pictures. In English.
  • Lormes, a place in the Morvan In English.
  • Description of The Morvan. In French.
  • parc du morvan and pollution sources.
  • Le Morvan. In French.

Coordinates: 47°05′N, 4°00′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


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Morvan, France (168 words)
The Monts du Morvan (a name of Celtic origin meaning "fl hill") are a range of hills of medium height between the Loire and the Saône rising to 900 m/3,000ft in the peak of Haut-Folin.
For centuries Morvan was the sole supplier of wood to Paris, and the Canal du Nivernais was built in 1842 to provide a convenient means of transport; 178km/108miles long, it has 110 locks and three tunnels.
The granite hills of Morvan have now been replanted with trees, and the Morvan Nature Park, established in 1970, takes in 173,000 hectares/427,000 acres of the hills, with the valleys and gorges, the streams and the numerous lakes which pattern the landscape.
The Rolex Awards: studying ground beetles in Nepal, P. Morvan (1895 words)
Pierre Morvan, a self-taught expert on insects, has made his mark in science by exploring insect populations in a region often out of bounds to professional scientists – the isolated and inaccessible regions of the Himalayas.
Morvan’s recent work is largely the fruit of his winning a Rolex Award for Enterprise in 1987.
Afterwards, Morvan’s hours are spent glued to his microscope, diligently dissecting the beetles, analysing them, and scrupulously reproducing their smallest anatomical details on paper with a practicised stroke of his pen.
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