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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
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 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 ...
Çaloire (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Loire department in central France. It is close to the villages of Unieux , Chambles and Saint-Paul-en-Cornillon , and 5 km northwest of Firminy , the largest town in the area.
The Èvre (French pronunciation:) is a 91.8 km (57.0 mi) long river in western France, left tributary of the Loire. [1] Its source is at Vezins, 1.5 km (0.93 mi) northeast of the village. It flows into the Loire at Le Marillais, 3 km (1.9 mi) east of the village.