Brittany (French: Bretagne, French pronunciation ▶ (help·info); Breton: Breizh; Gallo: Bertaèyn) is a former independent kingdom and duchy, then province of France. It is also, more generally, the name of the cultural area whose limits correspond to the old province. The historical province of Brittany was split between two modern-day régions of France. 80% of Brittany has become the région of Bretagne, while the r ...

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Anne of Brittany (January 25, 1477 – January 9, 1514) was also known as Anna of Brittany and Anne de Bretagne. She was born in Nantes, France on January 25, 1477 and was the daughter of Francis II, Duke of Brittany and Margaret of Foix. Anne of Brittany - Marriages. The ducal house of Dreux, rulers of Brittany since their ancestress Duchess Constance (1203), was going extinct: Francis seemed to be the last male. The duchy had been inherited under Salic succession (though no written l ...

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Brittany is on the northwest coast of France and is a region unique in that country in its Celtic cultural derivation. Though long under the control of France and influenced by French traditions, Brittany has retained and, more recently, revived its own folk music, modernizing and adapting it into folk-rock and other fusion genres. Brittany has been inhabited by the Celts since about the 6th century, and were independent for a time, though not united politically or, in all likelihood, culturally. Charlemagne, a Frankish king, conquere ...

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Human habitation in the area now called Brittany goes back to the late Paleolithic, or Epi-Palaeolithic, period. Megaliths erected in the 5th millennium BC are the best known Neolithic remains. Roman sources record the Armoricani tribes of the Veneti, Osismii, Namneti, Coriosoliti and Riedoni as inhabiting the area in the iron age. In 56 BC the area was conquered by the Romans under Julius Caesar. The Romans called the district Armorica (a Latinisation of a Celtic word meaning "coastal region"), or Gallia Lugdunensis. Th ...

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Human habitation in the area now called Brittany goes back to the late Paleolithic, or Epi-Palaeolithic, period. Megaliths erected in the 5th millennium BC are the best known Neolithic remains. Roman sources record the Armoricani tribes of the Veneti, Osismii, Namneti, Coriosoliti and Riedoni as inhabiting the area in the iron age. In 56 BC the area was conquered by the Romans under Julius Caesar. The Romans called the district Armorica (a Latinisation of a Celtic word meaning "coastal region"), within the larger province of See also:

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Bretagne (French pronunciation ▶ (help·info); English: Brittany; Breton: Breizh; Gallo: Bertaèyn) is one of the 26 régions of France. It occupies a large peninsula in the northwest of the country, lying between the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south. Its capital city is Rennes. Bretagne - Territory. The région of Bretagne is made up of 80% of the forme ...

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The word Britain is an informal term used to refer to; the island of Great Britain which consists of the nations of England, Scotland and Wales. the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or UK, sometimes the Roman province called "Britain" or "Britannia" The word British generally means belonging to or associated with Britain in one of the first two senses above (i.e. the United Kingdom or the island of Great Britain). However, the term has a range of related usages, a ...

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Agotes or cagots were a discriminated minority in the Navarrese Pyrenees, Basque provinces, Bearn, Gascony and also Brittany. They have been also known by other names: Cagots, Gahets, Gafets in France; Agotes, Gafos in Spain; and Cacons, Cahets, Caqueux and Caquins in Brittany. The earliest mention of them is in 1288, when they appear to ...

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Breton can refer to: The Breton language A person from Brittany, a region of France previously controlled by Britons Author André Breton French realist painter Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton Race in The Elder Scrolls game series Other related archivesAndré Breton, Breton language, Britons, Brittany, France, Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton, The Elder Scrolls

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The Amandine potato is a variety of early potato, descended from the varieties Charlotte and Mariana. Bred in Brittany, France, it entered the national list of potato varieties in 1994. Amandine shaws typically produce long tubers with very pale, unblemished skin. Their flesh, firm and also very pale, contains comparatively little starch. Amandine potatoes have become popular in Switzerland. Category: Potatoes Other related archives1994, Brittany

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Côtes-d'Armor (French) / Aodoù-an-Arvor (Breton) is a département in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. Côtes-d'Armor - History. Côtes-du-Nord was one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Brittany. Its name was changed in 1990 to Côtes-d'Armor (ar mor meaning the sea in Breton). The name also has a historical connotation recalling the Roman provinc ...

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Breton (Breton: Brezhoneg) is a Celtic language spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany (Breizh) and Loire-Atlantique (historically part of Brittany) in France. Breton language - History. Breton is not thought to be a descendant of any of the Continental Celtic languages such as Gaulish (though it may have borrowed some features from it); rather, it is descended from the Brythonic branch of Insular Celtic languages brought by Romano-British settlers to Brittany after the Roman departure ...

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The bombarde is a breton folk instrument from Brittany. A cross between an oboe and a conical-bored pipe chanter, it is blown in the mouth, with the reed between the lips. Typically pitched in B flat, it plays a diatonic scale over two octaves. Producing a very strident and powerful tone, it is most commonly heard today in bagads, the Breton version of the pipe bands. Traditionally it was used in ...

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Incorporation of Brittany into the Carolingian empire ensured that the political and social institutions were similar to those prevaling elsewhere in western Francia. Until the 10th century, Brittany was severely affected by Viking attacks and ducal authority was weak. Dynastic disputes caused the political fragmentation of the duchy into counties and authority suffered even further from the pressures of resisting claims by both the dukes of Normandy and the counts of Anjou. This process of fragmentation was halted and reversed from the mid-eleventh century, when intermarriage resulted in the ducal title ...

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Duke of Brittany, Duke of Brittany - Duchy of Brittany, Duke of Brittany - Kings and Dukes of Brittany, Duke of Brittany - Kings of the Bretons, Duke of Brittany - House of Nantes/Naoned, Duke of Brittany - House of Rennes/Roazhon, Duke of Brittany - House of Cornouaille/Kernev, Duke of Brittany - House of Anjou, Duke of Brittany - House of Dreux, Duke of Brittany - House of Montfort, Duke of Brittany - External link

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After 1532, Brittany retained a certain fiscal and regulatory autonomy, which was defended by the États de Bretagne despite the rising tide of royal absolutism. Brittany remained on the whole strongly Catholic during the period of the Huguenots and the Wars of Religion, although Protestantism made some headway in Nantes and a few other areas. From 1590-98, during the War of the Catholic League, the duc de Mercoeur (governor of Brittany and husband of the countess of Penthièvre) sought to have himself proclaimed Duke of Britanny and ...

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History of Brittany, History of Brittany - Palaeolithic, History of Brittany - Mesolithic, History of Brittany - Neolithic, History of Brittany - Bronze age, History of Brittany - Iron Age, History of Brittany - Roman rule, History of Brittany - Early Middle Ages, History of Brittany - Middle Ages, History of Brittany - Early modern Brittany, History of Brittany - Modern Times, History of Brittany - Notes, History of Brittany - Sources

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Brittany Ferries - 1970s. The company was founded in January 1973 by Alexis Gouvernnec, and began sailings between Roscoff in Brittany and Plymouth in the south of England. The company was called BAI (Bretagne-Angleterre-Irelande) and their first ship was the Kerisinel. The following year a brand-new purpose-built ship named the Penn-Ar-Bed entered service on the route following its popularity wit ...

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The westernmost extensions of the Villeneuve-Saint-Germain culture, based on a linearbandkeramic tradition are found in eastern Brittany (Le Haut Meé). The use of schist from the eastern edge of the Breton Massif for bracelets in settlements in the Paris Bassin attests to widespread trade. A bracelet of polished stone found in a grave in the VSG-settlement of Jablines Les-Longues-Raies was made of amphibolite from the island of Groix in southern Morbihan, ...

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History of Brittany, History of Brittany - Palaeolithic, History of Brittany - Mesolithic, History of Brittany - Neolithic, History of Brittany - Bronze age, History of Brittany - Iron Age, History of Brittany - Roman rule, History of Brittany - Early Middle Ages, History of Brittany - Middle Ages, History of Brittany - Early modern Brittany, History of Brittany - Modern Times, History of Brittany - Notes, History of Brittany - Sources

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Duke of Brittany - Kings of the Bretons. Nominoe (r.841-851), as a missus dominicus of the Emperor Louis the Pious, a count of Vannes (Gwened) and a duke (dux) of Brittany Erispoe (r.851-857), as a duke, then a king of Brittany Saloman (or Salaün) (r.857-874), as a duke, then a king of Brittany Pasquitan of Vannes (or Paskweten) (r.874-877), ruling Brittany with Gurvand Gurvand of Rennes (r.874-877), ruling Brittany with Pasquitan Jud ...

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The ducal house of Dreux, rulers of Brittany since their ancestress Duchess Constance (1203), was going extinct: Francis seemed to be the last male. The duchy had been inherited under Salic succession (though no written law existed) and one succession war confirmed that principle: the war between Jeanne of Penthievre and her uncle John of Montfort in 1340's, won by Montfort. Now Montfort's male line of descent was going extinct, too. In the peace treaty, it had actually been stipulated that if Montfort's male descent failed, Jeanne's heirs w ...

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