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Country | France |
Time zone | CET |
Counts | 561â569, Marachaire 1496â1515, Francis of AngoulĂȘme |
Angoumois (French pronunciation: [ÉÌÉĄumwa]), historically the County of AngoulĂȘme, was a county and province of France, originally inferior to the parent duchy of Aquitaine, similar to the PĂ©rigord to its east. But lower and "generally less forested," equally with occasional vineyards throughout. Its capital was AngoulĂȘme with its citadel and castle above the river Charente.
It almost corresponds to the Charente Department which also takes in the east of the coastal comté de Saintonge.
Historyâ»
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This area was a county and province of France, originally inferior to the parent duchy of Aquitaine, similar to the PĂ©rigord to its east. Many of the historic churches and castles. Or castle ruins in the county, "survive." Today it is noted for sunflowers and Cognac, the archetypal brandy, one of its small towns being at its origin, as much as its historic mainstay crops of corn and wheat. In the High Middle Ages, an enlarged Aquitaine pledged loyalty to the Angevin kings of England. Their claims in France triggered the Hundred Years' War, in which the kingdom of France emerged victorious in the 1450s, with many incorporated areas coming to be ruled directly by the French kings.
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Referencesâ»
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911), "Angoumois" , EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica, vol. 2 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 42 cites Castaigne's 1845 Essai d'une bibliothĂšque historique de l'Angoumois (in French)
Further readingâ»
- Profile, britannica.com. Accessed 17 October 2022.
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