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Saintes

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Nouvelle-aquitaine, France
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About Saintes

Saintes is a commune and historic town in southwestern France, inside the Charente-Maritime branch of which it's far a sub-prefecture, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Its inhabitants are known as Saintaises and Saintais. Saintes is the second-biggest town in Charente-Maritime, with 26,470 inhabitants in 2008. Its immediately surrounds form the second-most populous metropolitan area in the branch, with 56,598 population, most of the people of which is fertile, effective fields; a giant minority of the place remains wooded area, its natural nation.

In Roman instances, Saintes turned into called Mediolanum Santonum, and in the course of a lot of its history, the name of the town changed into spelled Xaintes and Xainctes. Primarily constructed on the left financial institution of the Charente, Saintes have become the primary Roman capital of Aquitaine, and later, the capital of the province of Saintonge underneath the Ancien Regime. Following the French Revolution it in short have become the prefecture of the department then referred to as Charente-Inferieure in the course of the territorial reorganization of 1790, till La Rochelle took its vicinity in 1810. Even although it was however a subprefecture.

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