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13-570: Th Clouère flows through these communes, listed from source to mouth: This Charente geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Vienne geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in France is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Charente Charente ( French: [ʃaʁɑ̃t] ; Saintongese : Chérente ; Occitan : Charanta [tʃaˈɾantɔ] )

26-581: A decline in population as the economic prospects available in the cities and in France's overseas empire attracted working-aged people. Economic ruin came to many in the Charentais wine industry with the arrival in 1872 of phylloxera . During the twentieth century, the department with its traditional industries was adversely impacted by two major world wars, and in the second half of the century, it experienced relatively low growth. The overall population remaining remarkably stable at around 340,000 throughout

39-404: Is a department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine , south western France . It is named after the river Charente , the most important and longest river in the department, and also the river beside which the department's two largest towns, Angoulême and Cognac , are sited. In 2019, it had a population of 352,015. Charente is one of the original 83 departments created during

52-426: Is a former administrative region of southwest-central France . On 1 January 2016, it became part of the new administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It comprised three departments : Corrèze , Creuse , and Haute-Vienne . Situated mostly in the west side of south-central French Massif Central , Limousin had (in 2010) 742,770 inhabitants spread out on nearly 17,000 km (6,600 square miles), making it

65-488: The French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the former province of Angoumois , and western and southern portions of Saintonge . Prior to the creation of the department as a single unit, much of it was commercially prosperous thanks to traditional industries such as salt and cognac production. Although the river Charente became silted up and was unnavigable for much of the twentieth century, in

78-768: The department are called Charentais or in feminine, Charentaise . Population development since 1791: The President of the Departmental Council is Philippe Bouty of the Miscellaneous left (DVG), elected in July 2021. Cognac and pineau are two of the major agricultural products of the region, along with butter. The Charentaise slipper (a type of slipper made from felt and wool) is another well-known traditional product. Limousin (region) Limousin ( French pronunciation: [limuzɛ̃] ; Occitan : Lemosin [lemuˈzi] )

91-484: The eighteenth century it provided important links with coastal shipping routes both for traditional businesses and for newly evolving ones such as paper goods and iron smelting. The accelerating pace of industrial and commercial development during the first half of the nineteenth century led to a period of prosperity, and the department's population peaked in 1851. During the second half of the nineteenth century Charente, like many of France's rural departments, experienced

104-420: The least populated region of metropolitan France . Forming part of the southwest of the country, Limousin was bordered by the regions of Centre-Val de Loire to the north, Auvergne to the east, Midi-Pyrénées to the south, Aquitaine to the southwest, and Poitou-Charentes to the west. Limousin was also part of the larger historical Occitania region. The population of Limousin was aging and, until 1999,

117-579: The number of British citizens residing in the department had risen to 5,083, placing the department fourth in this respect behind Paris, Dordogne and Alpes-Maritimes . It is largely part of the Aquitaine Basin , with the north-eastern part in the Massif Central . The Charente flows through it and gave its name to the department, along with Charente-Maritime . It is composed with the historical region of Angoumois and contains part of

130-549: The regions of Saintonge , Limousin , Périgord and Poitou . The department is part of the current region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is surrounded by the departments of Charente-Maritime , Dordogne , Haute-Vienne , Vienne and Deux-Sèvres . The southernmost “major” town (town with over 1,000 people) in the Charente is Chalais . The most populous commune is Angoulême , the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 9 communes with more than 5,000 inhabitants: The inhabitants of

143-402: The second half of the twentieth century, although industrial and commercial developments in the conurbation surrounding Angoulême have added some 10,000 to the overall population during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The relatively relaxed pace of economic development in the twentieth century encouraged the immigration of retirees from overseas. Census data in 2006 revealed that

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156-467: Was declining. The department of Creuse had the oldest population of any in France. Between 1999 and 2004 the population of Limousin increased slightly, reversing a decline for the first time in decades. Limousin was one of the traditional provinces of France . Its name derived from that of a Celtic tribe, the Lemovices , who had their capital at Saint-Denis-des-Murs and whose main sanctuary in 2004

169-562: Was found in Tintignac , a site which became a major site for Celtic studies thanks to unique objects which were found – such as the carnyces , unique in the whole Celtic world. Viscount Aimar V of Limoges ( c.  1135 – c.  1199 ) was a notable ruler of the region. Until the 1970s, Occitan was the primary language of rural areas. There remained several different Occitan dialects in use in Limousin, although their use

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