Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée Département, Pays de la Loire, France
🇫🇷 Fontenay-le-Comte is a commune and subprefecture in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region of Western France.
Geography The river Vendée flows through the town. The town has an area of 34 km² (13 sq mi).
History Fontenay was in existence as early as the time of the Gauls. The affix of comte is said to have been applied to it when it was taken by King Louis IX from the family of Lusignan and given to his brother Alphonse, count of Poitou, under whom it became capital of Bas-Poitou. Ceded to the Plantagenets by the Treaty of Brétigny, in 1360 it was retaken in 1372 by Duguesclin. It suffered repeated capture during the Religious Wars of the 16th century, was dismantled in 1621 and was occupied both by the Republicans and the Royalist Vendeans during the Revolt in the Vendée (1793). From 1790 to 1806 it was capital of the Vendée department.
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Fontenay-le-Comte has a population of over 26,806 people. Fontenay-le-Comte also forms the centre of the wider Fontenay-le-Comte Arrondissement which has a population of over 141,620 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Fontenay-le-Comte has links with:
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🇫🇷 Les Sables-d'Olonne 46.496
🇨🇭 Bourg-en-Lavaux 46.5
🇭🇺 Nagykanizsa 46.517
🇨🇦 Sault Ste. Marie 46.518
🇫🇷 Montmorillon 46.427
🇭🇺 Hódmezővásárhely 46.413
🇫🇷 Saint-Claude 46.399
🇷🇴 Miercurea Ciuc 46.368
🏴 Newark on Trent -0.8
🏴 Chichester -0.774
🏴 Gainsborough -0.773
🏴 Milton Keynes -0.756
🏴 Farnborough -0.75
🏴 High Wycombe -0.748
🏴 Newark-on-Trent -0.809
🇫🇷 Segré-en-Anjou Bleu -0.871
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🇫🇷 Vire Normandie -0.889
🏴 Northampton -0.895
Locations Near: Fontenay-le-Comte -0.8061,46.466
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🇫🇷 Les Herbiers -1.013,46.871 d: 47.7
🇫🇷 La Rochelle -1.15,46.16 d: 43.1
🇫🇷 Bressuire -0.488,46.84 d: 48.1
🇫🇷 Rochefort -0.959,45.942 d: 59.4
🇫🇷 Parthenay -0.248,46.645 d: 47.1
🇫🇷 Saint-Jean-d'Angély -0.529,45.946 d: 61.6
🇫🇷 Cholet -0.879,47.058 d: 66.1
🇫🇷 La Roche-sur-Yon -1.426,46.671 d: 52.6
Antipodal to: Fontenay-le-Comte 179.194,-46.466
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