Grand Poitiers is the communauté urbaine , an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Poitiers . It is located in the Vienne department , in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region , western France . It was created on 1 January 2017 as a communauté d'agglomération and transformed into a communauté urbaine on 1 July 2017. Its area is 1064.7 km. Its population was 196,530 in 2020, of which 90,033 in Poitiers proper.
5-424: The communauté urbaine consists of the following 40 communes: 46°35′N 0°20′E / 46.58°N 0.34°E / 46.58; 0.34 This Vienne geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vienne (department) Vienne ( French pronunciation: [vjɛn] vyen ; Poitevin-Saintongeais : Viéne ) is a landlocked department in
10-443: Is now Nova Scotia , left Vienne for North America after 1604. Kennedy (2014) argues that the emigrants carried to Canada their customs and social structure. They were frontier peoples, who dispersed their settlements based on kinship. They optimized use of farmland and emphasized trading for a profit. They were hierarchical and politically active. The department of Vienne has an area of 6,990 km (2,700 sq mi). Part of
15-631: The French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It takes its name from the river Vienne . It had a population of 438,435 in 2019. Established on March 4, 1790, during the French Revolution , Vienne is one of the original 83 departments. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Poitou , Touraine , and Berry , the last being a part of the Duchy of Aquitaine until the 15th century. The original Acadians , who settled in and around what
20-573: The region Nouvelle-Aquitaine , it borders Maine-et-Loire to the northwest, Indre-et-Loire to the north, Indre to the east, Haute-Vienne to the southeast, Charente to the south and Deux-Sèvres to the west. It is crossed by the river Vienne , a tributary of the Loire . The most populous commune is Poitiers , the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 6 communes with more than 7,000 inhabitants: Population development since 1801: Édith Cresson , France's first woman prime minister from 1991 to 1992,
25-605: Was a deputy (MP) for the department. The president of the Departmental Council is Alain Pichon, elected in 2020. Vienne has three arrondissements: Poitiers , the prefecture, and the subprefectures Châtellerault and Montmorillon . The capital, Poitiers, is the see of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Poitiers , which pastorally serves the department. The most famous tourist sites include
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