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Aquitaine passed to France in 1137 when the duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine married Louis VII of France, but their marriage was annulled in 1152. When Eleanor's new husband became King Henry II of England in 1154, the area became an English possession, and a cornerstone of the Angevin Empire .
The Duchy of Aquitaine (Occitan: Ducat d'Aquitània, IPA: [dyˈkad dakiˈtaɲɔ]; French: Duché d'Aquitaine, IPA: [dyʃe dakitɛn]) was a historical fiefdom located in the western, central and southern areas of present-day France, south of the river Loire.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine has an area of 84,035.7 km 2 (32,446.4 sq mi) – more than 1 ⁄ 7 of Metropolitan France – and has a population of 6,033,952 as of 2020. [4] The new region was established on 1 January 2016, following the regional elections in December 2015 .
Its historic centre, with 77 protected monuments, was added to France's Tentative List for future nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2002. [8] The excellent state of preservation owed a debt to writer, resistance fighter and politician André Malraux , who, as Minister of Culture (1960–1969), restored the town and many other sites ...
Map of Lot-et-Garonne. Lot-et-Garonne is part of the current region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and is surrounded by the departments of Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne, Gers, Landes, Gironde, and Dordogne. The north of the department is composed of limestone hills. Between Lot and Garonne, there is a plateau carved by many valleys.
Bayonne (French: ⓘ) [3] is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border.It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
Gironde is part of the current region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and is surrounded by the departments of Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne and Charente-Maritime and the Atlantic Ocean on the west. With an area of 10,000 km 2, Gironde is the largest department in metropolitan France, and the second-largest in entire France.
Gan (French pronunciation:; Occitan: Gant) is a commune located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the south-west of France. Gan station has rail connections to Pau, Oloron-Sainte-Marie and Bedous.