Pluméliau (; ) is a former
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
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in the
Morbihan
Morbihan ( , ; br, Mor-Bihan ) is a department in the administrative region of Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastl ...
department of
Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period ...
in north-western
France
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.
On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune
Pluméliau-Bieuzy.
Arrêté préfectoral
28 November 2018
Geography
The ''ruisseau
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de Kergouët'' forms part of the commune's eastern border, then flows into the Ével
The Ével (; br, Evel) is a long river in the Morbihan ''département'', western France. Its source is near ''la Bottine'', a hamlet in Radenac. It flows generally west-southwest. It is a left tributary of the Blavet into which it flows between ...
, which forms its south-eastern border.
Demographics
Inhabitants of Pluméliau are called in French ''Plumelois''.
See also
*Communes of the Morbihan department
The following is a list of the 249 communes of the Morbihan department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):[Henri Gouzien
Henri Gouzien was born in 1889 in Lorient in Morbihan
Morbihan ( , ; br, Mor-Bihan ) is a department in the administrative region of Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton), the e ...]
, sculptor of Pluméliau War Memorial
References
External links
Cultural Heritage
Former communes of Morbihan
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