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Saint-Nazaire was a small village until the Industrial Revolution but became a large town in the second half of the 19th century, thanks to the construction of railways and the growth of the seaport. Saint-Nazaire progressively replaced upstream Nantes as the main haven on the Loire estuary.
At the time of the St Nazaire Raid in March 1942, the old town hall was the headquarters of the Défense Passive (Civil Protection). [5] It was badly damaged in a raid by American and British bomber aircraft on 16 February 1943, and completely destroyed in a firebombing raid, intended to make the port inoperable and the town inhabitable, on 28 ...
The following table and map show the areas in Ireland, previously designated as Cities, Boroughs, or Towns in the Local Government Act 2001. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Ireland had a two-tier system of local authorities. The first tier consisted of administrative counties and county boroughs.
Communauté d'agglomération de la Région Nazairienne et de l'Estuaire (CARENE) is an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Saint-Nazaire. It is located in the Loire-Atlantique department, in the Pays de la Loire region, western France. It was created in December 2000. Its seat is in Saint-Nazaire. [1] Its area is 320.3 km 2. Its ...
Saint-Marc-sur-Mer is a seaside resort in France, situated in the commune of Saint-Nazaire (principal place of the arrondissement of Saint-Nazaire, in the department of Loire-Atlantique, region of Pays de la Loire). It is located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) to the west of the center of the town of Saint-Nazaire, of which it is a district.
The current Chantiers de l'Atlantique yard evolved from the Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire, France, famous for building the transatlantic liners: France, Île de France, and Normandie. The oil tanker Batillus at the end of its construction in Saint-Nazaire, being refueled by the Port-Vendres
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The arrondissement of Saint-Nazaire is an arrondissement of France in the Loire-Atlantique department in the Pays de la Loire region. It has 55 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 345,185 (2021), and its area is 1,758.1 km 2 (678.8 sq mi).