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Poitiers

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Nouvelle Aquitaine, France
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Poitiers is a town at the Clain River in west valuable France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne branch and also of the Poitou. Poitiers is a primary college centre. The centre of city is picturesque and its streets include predominantly historical structure, especially spiritual architecture and in particular from the Romanesque length. Two important battles happened close to the city in 732, the Battle of Poitiers, in which the Franks commanded by way of Charles Martel, halted the enlargement of the Umayyad Caliphate and in 1356, the Battle of Poitiers, a key victory for the English forces at some point of the Hundred Years' War.

This struggle's outcomes partially provoked the Jacquerie. Poitiers became founded through the Celtic tribe of the Pictones and was known as the oppidum Lemonum before Roman affect. The call is stated to have come from the Celtic phrase for elm Lemo. After Roman impact took over, the town has become called Pictavium or later Pictavis, after the authentic Pictones inhabitants themselves. There are rich records of archeological reveals from the Roman generation in Poitiers. In reality till 1857 Poitiers hosted the ruins of a widespread Roman amphitheatre, which changed into large than that of Nimes.

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