| LC control no. | n 83214250 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Indre-et-Loire (France) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | France--Indre-et-Loire |
| Variant(s) | Département d'Indre-et-Loire (France) |
| Beginning date | 17900304 |
| Associated country | France |
| Found in | L'Indre-et-Loire, 1982: t.p. (Indre-et-Loire) LC data base (Indre-et-Loire, France (Dept.)) BGN 4-6-82 (Departement d'Indre-et-Loire, Adm., 47°15ʹN, 0°45ʹE) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (adm2; 47°15ʹ00ʺN 000°45ʹ00ʺE) Wikipedia, Sept. 5, 2014 (Indre-et-Loire; department in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers. Indre-et-Loire is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the former province of Touraine. Tours, the departmental prefecture, was a centre of learning in the early Middle Ages, having been a key focus of Christian evangelisation since St Martin became its first bishop in c. 375. From the mid-15th century, the royal court repaired to the Loire Valley, with Tours as its capital, and at the confluence/crossing-point of the Loire and Cher rivers it became a centre of silk manufacturing and other luxury goods, including the wine-trade; 1920 saw the birth of the French Communist Party at the Congress of Tours) |
| Geographic area code | e-fr--- |
| Associated language | fre |
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