Saint-Brice-en-Coglès
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Saint-Brice-en-Coglès (, pronounced as ''Saint-Brice-en-Cogles''; ) is a former
commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...
in the
Ille-et-Vilaine Ille-et-Vilaine (; br, Il-ha-Gwilen) is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named after the two rivers of the Ille and the Vilaine. It had a population of 1,079,498 in 2019.
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in
Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known ...
in northwestern
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Maen Roch.Arrêté préfectoral
29 August 2016


Geography

Saint-Brice-en-Coglès is located at northeast of
Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
and south of
Mont Saint-Michel Mont-Saint-Michel (; Norman: ''Mont Saint Miché''; ) is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy, France. The island lies approximately off the country's north-western coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches and is ...
. The neighboring communes are
Coglès Coglès (, pronounced as ''Cogles''; , north) is a former commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Les Portes du Coglais.La Selle-en-Coglès, Saint-Étienne-en-Coglès,
Baillé Baillé (; ; Gallo: ''Balhae'') is a former commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the commune Saint-Marc-le-Blanc.Saint-Marc-le-Blanc Saint-Marc-le-Blanc (; Gallo: ''Saent-Mard-le-Blaunc'', br, Sant-Mezar-Elvinieg) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, the former commune Baillé was merged into Saint-Marc-le-Blan ...
, and Tremblay.


Population

Inhabitants of Saint-Brice-en-Coglès are called ''briçois'' in French.


See also

*
Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department The following is a list of the 333 Communes of France, communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):


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Geography of Brittany


* Former communes of Ille-et-Vilaine {{IlleVilaine-geo-stub