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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.
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 ...
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.
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 river Loire in France has numerous tributaries, which include the following rivers (in order, going upstream): Map of the Loire basin showing the major tributaries. Acheneau. Boulogne; Sèvre Nantaise (in Nantes) Erdre (in Nantes) Èvre (in Le Marillais) Layon (in Chalonnes-sur-Loire) Maine (near Angers) Mayenne (near Angers) Oudon (in Le ...
Maclas is a commune in the Loire department in central France. Maclas is located near the villages of Véranne and Saint-Appolinard, approximately 50 kilometres south of Lyon . It is located in the Pilat mountain range and its main industries are farming and local industry.
Pays de la Loire (French pronunciation: [pe.i d(ə) la lwaʁ]; lit. ' Lands of the Loire ') is one of the eighteen regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital and most populated city, Nantes, one of a handful of French "balancing metropolises" (métropoles d'équilibre).
The village is situated in the greater Orléans area, in a meander of the river Loire, 14 km east of Orléans and 9 km west of the town of Jargeau. Bou is separated by fields from the villages of Mardié and Chécy, which lie to the north. The village of Bou was traditionally an agricultural area, producing cereal crops and vegetables and a ...