| Commune of Vannes | | Country | France | | Région | Bretagne | | Département | Morbihan (préfecture) | | Arrondissement | Vannes | | Canton | Chief town of 3 cantons | | Intercommunality | Communauté d'Agglomération du Pays de Vannes | Mayor
Term of office | Norbert Trochet
2001-2008 | | Land area¹ | 32.3 km² | Population²
(1999) | 51,759 (Vannetais) | Population density
(1999) | 1,602 pers./km² | | Longitude | 2° 45' 37" W | | Latitude | 47° 39' 21" N | | Altitude | average: 22 m
minimum: 0 m
maximum: 56 m | | INSEE Code | 56260 | | Postal code | 56000 | 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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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. ...
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. ...
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The arrondissement of Vannes is an arrondissement of France, located in the Morbihan département, in the Bretagne région. ...
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Estuaries and coastal waters are among the most productive ecosystems on Earth, providing numerous ecological, economic, cultural, and aesthetic benefits and services. ...
| Vannes (Breton: Gwened) is a town and commune located in the Morbihan département, in Brittany, in the west of France. It was founded more than 2000 years ago. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x794, 823 KB) Summary Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Vannes Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 387 KB) Summary Vannes, view from harbour to cathedral. ...
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Breton (Breton: Brezhoneg) is a Celtic language spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany (Breizh) and Loire-Atlantique (historically part of Brittany) in France. ...
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...
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. ...
Traditional coat of arms This article is about the historical kingdom, duchy and French province, as well as one of the Celtic Nations . ...
Geography Vannes is located along the Gulf of Morbihan, at the confluence of the Vannes River. It is a market town and often linked to the sea. The Gulf of Morbihan in France is the scene of an extraordinary number of megalithic ruins: passage dolmens, stepped pyramids with underground dolmen chambers, stone circles, and giant menhirs, among others. ...
Confluence of Rhine and Mosel at Koblenz In geography, a confluence describes the point where two rivers meet and become one, usually when a tributary joins a more major river. ...
History The diocese of Vannes was erected in the 5th century. In the novels of Alexandre Dumas, the musketeer Aramis appears at one point as bishop of Vannes. Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ...
Alexandre Dumas, père, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870), is best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world. ...
A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ...
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Births Vannes was the birthplace of: Francis I (in French François I) (1414 – 1450), was duke of Brittany, from 1442 to his death. ...
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Events March - French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in Caen April 15 - Battle of Formigny. ...
The Duke of Brittany (French: Duc de Bretagne) governed Brittany, a region with strong traditions of independence, including a language and a distinctive culture. ...
Paul César Helleu(December 17, 1859 - March 23, 1927) An artist, born in Vannes, Brittany, France, best known for his portraits of many of the most famous and beautiful women of his time including the Duchess of Marlborough, the Countess of Greffulhe and Belle da Costa Greene, librarian to...
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1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Yves-André Rocard (born Vannes May 22, 1903; died Paris March 16, 1992) was a French physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb for France. ...
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
Alain Resnais (born June 3, 1922 in Vannes, France) is a famous French film director, perhaps best known for his masterpieces Hiroshima mon amour (1959), written by Marguerite Duras, and Last Year at Marienbad (Lannée dernière à Marienbad) (1961), written by the French novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet. ...
1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
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1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθÏωπος, human or person) consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ...
Bernard Poignant Bernard Poignant (born 19 September 1945 in Vannes, Brittany) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France. ...
1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...
// French politics under the Fifth Republic After Charles de Gaulle had the constitution of the French Fifth Republic adopted in 1958, France was ruled by successive right-wing administrations until 1981. ...
Mathieu Berson (born February 23, 1980 in Vannes, France) is a French football player who currently plays for Auxerre on loan from Aston Villa F.C. as a midfielder In somewhat of a battle to sign the former Nantes star, a fee of 1. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
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Twin towns Vannes is twinned with: It has partnerships (partenariats) with: The central square and town hall of Mons Mons (Dutch: Bergen) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut, of which it is the capital. ...
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Barouéli is a town and cercle (district) in the Ségou region of central Mali. ...
Wałbrzych (pronounce: [vawbʒix], German Waldenburg) is a town in south-western Poland with 139,600 inhabitants (1995). ...
See also The Veneti were a seafaring people who lived in what is now Brittany, France. ...
Saint Meriasek (Meriadek in Breton) was a 4th century Celtic Christian saint. ...
During World War II, Operation Dingson was a large operation conducted by about 160 French paratroops (4 SAS) who jumped into Nazi-occupied France near Vannes on the night of 6 June 1944. ...
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