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Brittany (/ ˈ b r ɪ t ən i / BRIT-ən-ee; French: Bretagne, pronounced ⓘ; Breton: Breizh, pronounced [bʁɛjs, bʁɛx]; [1] [dubious – discuss] Gallo: Bertaèyn or Bertègn, pronounced [bəʁtaɛɲ]) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.
France. (2021) [ 1 ] Brittany (French: Bretagne [bʁətaɲ] ⓘ; Breton: Breizh [brɛjs]; Gallo: Bertaèyn [bəʁtaɛɲ]) is the westernmost region of Metropolitan France. It covers about four fifths of the territory of the historic province of Brittany.
Brest (French pronunciation: [bʁɛst] ⓘ; [ 3 ]Breton pronunciation: [bʀest] [ 4 ]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France, [ 5 ] Brest is an important harbour and the second largest French military port ...
History of Brittany. The history of Brittany may refer to the entire history of the Armorican peninsula or only to the creation and development of a specifically Brythonic culture and state in the Early Middle Ages and the subsequent history of that state. Pre-Brythonic Armorica includes the ancient megalith cultures in the area and the Celtic ...
Lorient. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Lorient (French: [lɔʁjɑ̃] ⓘ; Breton: An Oriant) is a town (commune) and seaport in the Morbihan department of Brittany in western France.
Map of the Brittany destination and its 10 structuring areas, as defined by Atout France. The Brittany region shares competence in the field of tourism with its constituent départements. [53] It has a vice-president dedicated to this issue, [54] and an operational department, the Comité Régional de Tourisme de Bretagne. [55]
Nantes is the headquarters of France 3 Pays de la Loire, one of 24 local stations of the France Télévisions national public broadcaster. France 3 Pays de la Loire provides local news and programming for the region. 256 The city is also home to Télénantes, a local, private television channel founded in 2004.
Geography. [edit] Côtes-d'Armor is part of the current administrative region of Brittany and is bounded by the departments of Ille-et-Vilaine to the east, Morbihan to the south, and Finistère to the west, and by the English Channel to the north. The region is an undulating plateau including three well-marked ranges of hills in the south.