Cornouaille
Sign in to saveCornouaille (; , ) is a historical region on the west coast of Brittany in West France. The name is cognate with Cornwall in neighbouring Great Britain. This can be explained by the settlement of Cornouaille by migrant princes from Cornwall who created an independent principality founded by Rivelen Mor Marthou, and the founding of the Bishopric of Cornouaille by ancient saints from Cornwall. Celtic Britons and the settlers in Brittany spoke a common language, which later evolved into Breton, Welsh and Cornish.
Key facts
- Settlement.image_shield
- Blason fr Pays de Cornouaille (Bretagne).svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 75px
- Settlement.image_map
- Map-Bro-Gernev.png
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.map_caption
- Cornouaille's location within Brittany
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.seat_type
- Historic capital
- Settlement.seat
- Quimper
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 5979
- Settlement.name
- Cornouaille
- Settlement.native_name
- Kernev, Kerne
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag-Pays-Cornouaille.png
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- pays de Bretagne
- Part of
- Lower Brittany
- Country
- France
- Contains
- Concarneau
- Capital
- Quimper
- Population
- 475233
- Area
- 5979
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- language used
- Breton
- P12749
- Hans Fischer
- Commons category
- Cornouaille
- different from
- Cornwall
- inception
- 0865-00-00
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Diocese
- Traditional districts
- List of rulers
- Notes
{{Infobox Settlement
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cornouaille” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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