Hiers-Brouage
Sign in to saveHiers-Brouage () is a former commune in the Charente-Maritime department, southwestern France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Marennes-Hiers-Brouage.
Key facts
- French commune.name
- Hiers-Brouage
- French commune.image
- Brouage-Remparts.jpg
- French commune.image coat of arms
- Blason ville fr Hiers-Brouage1 (Charente-Maritime).svg
- French commune.caption
- Citadel
- French commune.arrondissement
- Rochefort
- French commune.canton
- Marennes
- French commune.INSEE
- 17189
- French commune.postal code
- 17320
- French commune.commune
- Marennes-Hiers-Brouage
- French commune.elevation min m
- 0
- French commune.elevation max m
- 26
- French commune.area km2
- 31.35
- French commune.population
- 633
- French commune.population date
- 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Hiers-Brouage
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Marennes-Hiers-Brouage
- Population
- 648
- Area
- 31.35
- Elevation
- 3
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Saint-Just-Luzac
- Image
- Brouage-Remparts.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hiers-Brouage
- postal code
- 17320
- native label
- Hiers-Brouage
- inception
- 1555-01-01
- replaced by
- Marennes-Hiers-Brouage
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2018-12-31
- associated electoral district
- canton of Marennes
- P8168
- Myrmecia
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Hiers-Brouage () is a former commune in the Charente-Maritime department, southwestern France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Marennes-Hiers-Brouage.
==History== thumb|left|Citadel of Brouage - reproduction of a 17th-century scale model Brouage was founded in 1555 by Jacques de Pons on the Bay of Biscay facing the Atlantic Ocean. The town was founded on swampy land which had previously been underwater. Its name, "Brouage," comes from the surrounding mixture of water and clay, which was called "broue".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hiers-Brouage” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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