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The name "Loire" comes from Latin Liger, [8] which is itself a transcription of the native Gaulish name of the river.The Gaulish name comes from the Gaulish word liga, which means "silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium", a word that gave French lie, as in sur lie, which in turn gave English lees.
Sunset on the Loire River from the Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art. The Loire Valley (French: Vallée de la Loire, pronounced [vale də la lwaʁ]), spanning 280 kilometres (170 mi), [1] is a valley located in the middle stretch of the Loire river in central France, in both the administrative regions Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire.
Loire is part of the current administrative region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and is surrounded by the départements of Rhône, Isère, Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Puy-de-Dôme, Allier, and Saône-et-Loire. The river Loire traverses the department from south to north. The Loire département is divided into three arrondissements: Arrondissement of ...
The following is a list of the 320 communes of the Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Saint-Étienne Métropole; CA Loire Forez Agglomération; CA Roannais Agglomération; Communauté de communes Charlieu-Belmont; Communauté de communes de Forez-Est
The following is a list of the 21 cantons of the Loire department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: Andrézieux-Bouthéon Boën-sur-Lignon Charlieu Le Coteau Feurs Firminy Montbrison Le Pilat Renaison Rive-de-Gier Roanne-1 Roanne-2 Saint-Chamond Saint-Étienne-1 Saint-Étienne-2 Saint-Étienne-3 Saint-Étienne-4 Saint-Étienne-5 Saint ...
Loire-Atlantique (French pronunciation: [lwaʁ atlɑ̃tik]; Gallo: Louére-Atantique; Breton: Liger-Atlantel; before 1957: Loire-Inférieure, [3] Breton: Liger-Izelañ) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean. It had a population of 1,429,272 in 2019.
The Thouet (French pronunciation:) is a tributary of the Loire in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Pays de la Loire regions of western France. The Thouet rises at Secondigny, close to the source of the Sèvre Nantaise, and joins the Loire just to the west of Saumur. It is 142.6 km (88.6 mi) long, [1] and drains an area of 3,396 km 2 (1,311 sq mi). [2]
Briare, the Brivodorum of the Romans is situated at the extremity of the Briare Canal, which unites the river Loire and its lateral canal with the Loing and so with the Seine. The lateral canal of the Loire crosses the Loire near Briare by the Briare aqueduct which is 662 m long. [3] Briare station has rail connections to Montargis, Nevers and ...