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Brittany (administrative region)

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are also many inlets on the south coast, such as La Trinité sur Mer, which in the past have been ports and commercial harbours, but today are more popular with yachtsmen and a dwindling fishing industry. The sea here is warmer in summer. The backbone of Brittany is a granite ridge stretching from east to west, peaking in the Monts d'Arrée. But most of inland Brittany is farming country, a region known for its milk and butter and its early crops.
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Despite its limited size, Brittany is quite a diverse region; the north and west coasts, open to the force of the North Atlantic, are rugged and rocky, with sandy coves and beaches. The south coast, facing onto the Bay of Biscay, is flatter, much milder, and has a number of large sandy beaches. There
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As a holiday region, it is Brittany's coasts that attract the greatest number of visitors; the inland regions have attracted many second-home owners from other parts of France, and from Britain. In cultural terms, Brittany has its own language and Celtic cultural tradition that set it apart from the
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Brittany, located in the west-north-west corner of France, is one of the historic provinces of France. The most Atlantic of France's regions, Brittany is noted for its Celtic heritage, which sets it apart from the rest of France. It enjoys a mild climate somewhat warmer though not necessarily drier
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Part of the reason Brittany was split between two present-day regions was to avoid the rivalry between Rennes and Nantes. Although Nantes was the principal capital of the Duchy of Brittany until the sixteenth century, Rennes had been the seat of the Duchy's supreme court of justice between 1560 and
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in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As for the provincial States of Brittany, a legislative body which had originally met every two years in a different city of Brittany, that had met in Rennes only between 1728 and 1789, although not in the years 1730, 1758, and 1760. Despite that, the
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Although there were previous plans to create regions out of the departments, like the Clémentel plan (1919) or the Vichy regionalisation programme (1941), these plans had no effect or else were abolished in 1945. The current
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date from 1956 and were created by gathering departments together. In Brittany, this led to the creation of the new region of Brittany, which included only four out of the five historical Breton departments. The term
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was officially created by the Law of Decentralisation (2 March 1982), which also gave regions their legal status. The first direct elections for regional representatives took place on 16 March 1986.
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The French administration now allows for some Breton or Gallo to be used by the region and its communes, in road signs and names of towns and cities, alongside the official
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This article is about the French administrative region of Brittany. For the historical province of Brittany, as well as the cultural area of Brittany, see
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version. The two regional languages are also taught in some schools, and many folklore associations and clubs are trying to revive them.
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have strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties with those areas of Great Britain which remained Brythonic into the modern era:
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have tended to be considerably higher than the national average. However, in recent years the influence of the church has declined.
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When the modern regions were established, Loire-Inférieure (44), which includes the historic capital Nantes, became part of
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is supported by a majority of Loire-Atlantique and is considered a prerequisite to further autonomy of Brittany as a whole.
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and other environmentalist parties have traditionally been strong in the region, especially in urban areas such as
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of Brittany between 1689 and 1789, and Intendances were the most important administrative units of the
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invasions of England between the fifth and seventh centuries. Unlike the rest of France and Brittany,
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is the regional rail network serving Brittany in order to link the cities of Brittany to each other.
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The following table is the list of communes in Brittany with a population over 15,000 inhabitants.
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Following the Breton defeat at the hands of the French army in 1488, the duchy was forced into a
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had remained in Nantes until 1789. However, from 1381 until the end of the fifteenth century
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in Breton) had served as the administrative capital of the Duchy, remaining the seat of its
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is situated in the east of Brittany, being the capital of the region, the capital of the
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the Britons were displaced from most of what is now England by the
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than the climate of the Cornish peninsula in south-west Britain.
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is considered the capital of historic Brittany and is located in
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The region of Brittany was created in 1941 from four of the five
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deputy to the National Assembly (he has since joined the pro-
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are also increasingly popular in the region, particularly
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coach services link the region with the largest cities in
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The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies
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region, with the notable exception of the department of
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the French provinces were dissolved and replaced with
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where the region has multiple teams that compete in
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