Touraine
Sign in to saveTouraine (; ) is one of the traditional provinces of France. Its capital was Tours. During the political reorganization of French territory in 1790, Touraine formed the bulk of the Indre-et-Loire department as well as parts of the new departments of :Loir-et-Cher, Indre and Vienne.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Touraine
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Touraine.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Arms of Charles le Bel.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 75px
- Settlement.image_map
- Touraine in France (1789).svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- France
- Settlement.seat
- Tours
- Settlement.timezone
- CET
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical province of France
- Country
- France
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- Commons category
- Touraine
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1790-01-01
- topic's main category
- Category:Touraine
- inception
- 1584-00-00
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- native label
- Touraine
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Notable people
- See also
- References
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Touraine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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