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L' arrondissement de Vannes est une division administrative française, située dans le département du Morbihan et la région Bretagne . Composition de 1926 à 2016. Liste des cantons de l'arrondissement de Vannes entre 1926 (suppression de l' arrondissement de Ploërmel) et 2014 : canton d'Allaire ; canton d'Elven ; canton de Grand-Champ ;
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The arrondissement of Vannes is an arrondissement of France in the Morbihan department in the Brittany region. It has 99 communes. Its population is 279,964 (2016), and its area is 2,416.2 km 2 (932.9 sq mi). Composition. The communes of the arrondissement of Vannes, and their INSEE codes, are:
Site web. mairie-vannes.fr. modifier. Vannes/van/ Note 1 Écouter est une commune française située dans l’ouest de la France sur la côte sud de la région Bretagne. La ville, située en Basse-Bretagne, est la préfecture du département du Morbihan, et le siège d'une agglomération de 79 795 habitants.
Arrondissement of Vannes, (prefecture of the Morbihan department: Vannes) with 99 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 279,964 in 2016. History. In 1800 the arrondissements of Vannes, Lorient, Ploërmel and Pontivy were established. The arrondissement of Ploërmel was disbanded in 1926.
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Celtic Era
The name Vannes comes from the Veneti, a seafaring Celtic people who lived in the south-western part of Armorica in Gaul before the Roman invasions. The region seems to have been involved in a cross channel trade for thousands of years, probably using hide boats and perhaps Ferriby Boats. Wheat that apparently was grown in the Middle East was part of this trade. At about 150 BC the evidence of trade (such as Gallo-Belgic coins) with the Thames estuary area of Great Britaindramatically increased.
Roman Era
The Veneti were defeated by Julius Caesar's fleet in 56 BC in front of Locmariaquer; many of the Veneti were then either slaughtered or sold into slavery. The Romans settled a town called Darioritumin a location previously belonging to the Veneti.
The Britons arrive
From the 5th to the 7th century, the remaining Gauls were displaced or assimilated by waves of immigrant Britons fleeing the Saxon invasions of Britain. Under the Breton name Gwened (also derived from the Veneti), the town was the center of an independent principality or kingdom variously called Bro-Wened ("Vannes") or Bro-Ereg ("land of Gwereg"), the latter for a prominent member of its dynasty, which claimed descent from Caradog Strongarm. The diocese of Vannes was erected in the 5th centur...
Vannes, located on the Gulf of Morbihan at the mouth of two rivers, the Marle and the Vincin, is around 100 kilometres (62 miles) northwest of Nantesand 450 km (280 miles) south west of Paris. Vannes is a market town linked to the sea.
Train The Vannes railway station offers connections to Quimper, Rennes, Nantes, Paris and several regional destinations. With the fast train TGV, the journey takes: – 30 minutes to Lorient, – 1 hour to Nantes or Rennes, – 2.5 to 4 hours to Paris. The Transport express régional or TER is a slower train to join railway stations in the close neighborh...
Church of St Patern, classic churchChapel of Saint-Yves, baroque churchChâteau Gaillard (medieval house now used as an archaeological museum)In the last of the Three Musketeers novels of Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, published in 1847, the musketeer Aramis appears as bishop of Vannes before becoming Genera...In Sébastien Roch, a novel by Octave Mirbeaupublished in 1890, Sebastien is sent to a school in Vannes, Saint-François-Xavier, where he is a victim of sexual abuse.In Sir Nigel, a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doylepublished in 1906, Nigel is made seneschal of the Castle of Vannes after a battle in Brittany. He does not remain in Vannes, since after winning in an...Saint Emilion (Emilianus) (?–767), monk and Roman Catholic saint, he gave his name to one of the main red wineareas of BordeauxFrançois I (1414–1450), Duke of BrittanyThe local football team is Vannes OC, who play in the 5th tier Championnat National 3as of the 2023–24 season. The Rugby Club Vannesis the rugby union team and competed in Pro D2 for the 2023–24 season. Both teams play at the Stade de la Rabinebuilt in 2001. The town was the start line for stage 9 of the 2015 Tour de France.
Vannes is twinnedwith: 1. Mons, Belgium (1952) 2. Cuxhaven, Germany (1963) 3. Fareham, England, United Kingdom (1967) 4. Wałbrzych, Poland (2001) 5. Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (2001)
Vannes (prononcé [van] Écouter) est une commune située dans l’ouest de la France sur la côte sud de la région Bretagne. La ville, située en Basse-Bretagne, est la préfecture du département du Morbihan. Le nom de la ville en breton vannetais est Gwened (prononcé [dzɥinˈjɛt] ou [ g ɥinˈjɛt]) et Vann en gallo.
Carte de l'arrondissement de Vannes. Cet article recense les monuments historiques de l'arrondissement de Vannes, dans le département du Morbihan, en France. Généralités. Au 31 décembre 2009, le Morbihan compte 919 immeubles protégés au titre des monuments historiques, soit 335 classés, et 584 inscrits [1].
