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Communauté D'agglomération Lisieux Normandie
Communauté d'agglomération Lisieux Normandie is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Lisieux. It is located in the Calvados department, in the Normandy region, northwestern France. It was created in January 2017 by the merger of the former communautés de communes Lintercom Lisieux - Pays d'Auge - Normandie, Vallée d'Auge, Trois Rivières, Pays de Livarot and Pays de l'Orbiquet. It was expanded with six communes from the former communautés de communes de Cambremer in January 2018. 7 December 2017, p 119 Its area is 951.6 km2. Its population was 73,252 in 2019, of which 20,038 in Lisieux proper. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisieux
Lisieux () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. It is the capital of the Pays d'Auge area, which is characterised by valleys and hedged farmland. Name The name of the town derives from the la, Noviomagus Lexoviorum ("Noviomagus of the Lexovii"). The town was originally known in Celtic as ("New Field", "New Market"), which was Latinized as . Owing to the large number of similarly named cities, however, it was necessary to specify where this one was located. The local French demonym derives from the Latin as well. History Antiquity Lisieux was the capital of the Lexovii. In his work, ''Commentaries on the Gallic War'', Caesar mentions a Gallic ''oppidum'', a term which refers to Celtic towns located on the tops of hills. The oppidum has been pinpointed to a place referred to as ''le Castellier'', located to the southwest of the town. However the Gallo-Roman city was in fact located where Lisieux is to be found today. Midd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
