15-671: Poitevin may refer to: From or related to Poitou From or related to the town of Poitiers Poitevin dialect , the language spoken in the Poitou Poitevin horse , a breed of draught horse from Poitou, France Poitevine goat , a breed of goat from Western France Poitevin hound , a breed of hound People [ edit ] Alphonse Louis Poitevin (1819-1882), French chemist, photographer and civil engineer Guy Poitevin (1927-2008), French footballer and manager Maixent Poitevin , mayor of Poitiers from 1564 to 1566 Roger
30-531: A monument historique since 1987. Niort is the birthplace of the following people: Niort is featured or mentioned in the following fictional works: The football team is Chamois Niortais , which plays in National, the third-highest league in French football . Rugby team Stade Niortais celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009. The city also is home to a professional basketball club named ASN Niort. The team plays at
45-616: A railway station on the TGV route between Paris and La Rochelle , Gare de Niort . Direct TGV to Paris Montparnasse station takes 2 hours and 15 minutes. Niort is a road and motorway junction, connected to Paris and Bordeaux by the A10 motorway, with Nantes by the A83, and with La Rochelle by the N11. It is the largest French city to offer free mass transit. The population data in the table and graph below refer to
60-521: Is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department , western France. It is the prefecture of Deux-Sèvres. The population of Niort is 58,707 (2017) and more than 177,000 people live in the urban area. The town is located on the river Sèvre Niortaise and is a centre of angelica cultivation in France. Near Niort at Maisonnay there is one of the tallest radio masts in France (height: 330 metres). Niort has
75-419: Is a main financial centre of France (ranked fourth after Paris, Lyon and Lille ). Chemistry and aeronautics are the other main industries. Niort is a major administrative and commercial centre. There has been a covered market in the town since at least the 13th century. The present-day Halles de Niort , a steel and glass pavilion atop a vaulted stone base building, opened in 1871 and has been listed as
90-442: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Language and nationality disambiguation pages Poitou Poitou ( UK : / ˈ p w ʌ t uː / PWUH -too , US : / p w ɑː ˈ t uː / pwah- TOO , French: [pwatu] ; Latin : Pictaviensis, Pictavia ; Poitevin : Poetou ) was a province of west-central France whose capital city
105-811: The Poitevin Marsh (French Marais Poitevin ) is located along the Gulf of Poitou , on the west coast of France, just north of La Rochelle and west of Niort . At the conclusion of the Battle of Taillebourg in the Saintonge War , which was decisively won by the French, King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental Plantagenet territory to France. This was ratified by the Treaty of Paris of 1259 , by which King Louis annexed Normandy , Maine , Anjou , and Poitou). During
120-753: The French Roman Catholic Church conducted a strong Counter-Reformation effort. In 1793, this effort had contributed to the three-year-long open revolt against the French Revolutionary Government in the Bas-Poitou (Département of Vendée ). Similarly, during Napoleon 's Hundred Days in 1815, the Vendée stayed loyal to the Restoration Monarchy of King Louis XVIII . Napoleon dispatched 10,000 troops under General Lamarque to pacify
135-606: The French colonists, later known as Acadians , who settled beginning in 1604 in eastern North America came from southern Poitou. They established settlements in what is now Nova Scotia , and later in New Brunswick —both of which were taken over in the later 18th century by the English, (after their 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War ). After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685,
150-595: The Poitevin (1060s-1130s), Anglo-Norman aristocrat Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Poitevin . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poitevin&oldid=1031191837 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
165-453: The commune of Niort proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Niort absorbed the former commune of Souché in 1964, Sainte-Pezenne in 1965, Saint-Florent in 1968 and Saint-Liguaire in 1971. Niort is the French capital of mutual insurance and bank companies, with the headquarters of MAAF , MAIF, MACIF, SMACL and regional branches of national mutual companies such as Groupama , Banque Populaire . Despite its small size, Niort
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#1732844576101180-520: The late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Poitou was a hotbed of Huguenot (French Calvinist Protestant) activity among the nobility and bourgeoisie. The Protestants were discriminated against and brutally attacked during the French Wars of Religion (1562–1598). Under the Edict of Nantes , such discrimination was temporarily suspended but this measure was repealed by the French Crown. Some of
195-606: The region where Louis XIII and Louis XIV had encountered stiff resistance, the House of Bourbon gained loyal and militant supporters exactly when it had been overthrown and when a Bourbon loyalty came to imply a local loyalty in opposition to the new central government, that of Robespierre ." 46°38′55″N 0°14′52″W / 46.6486°N 0.2478°W / 46.6486; -0.2478 Niort Niort ( French pronunciation: [njɔʁ] ; Poitevin : Niàu ; Occitan : Niòrt ; Latin : Novioritum )
210-514: The region. As noted by historian Andre Lampert: "The persistent Huguenots of 17th Century Poitou and the fiercely Catholic rebellious Royalists of what came be the Vendée of the late 18th Century had ideologies very different, indeed diametrically opposed to each other. The common thread connecting both phenomena is a continuing assertion of a local identity and opposition to the central government in Paris , whatever its composition and identity. (...) In
225-546: Was Poitiers . Both Poitou and Poitiers are named after the Pictones Gallic tribe. The main historical cities are Poitiers (historical capital city), Châtellerault (France's kings' establishment in Poitou), Niort , La Roche-sur-Yon , Thouars , and Parthenay . Historically Poitou was ruled by the count of Poitou , a continuous line of which can be traced back to an appointment of Charlemagne in 778. A marshland called
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