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Le Château-d'Oléron (; , before 1962: ''Le Château'')Décret du 2 mars 1962 portant changement de nom de communes
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'' n° 0055, 7 March 1962, p. 2308. is a commune located on the
Island of Oléron An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being split from a continent by plate tectonics, and oceanic islands, which have never been ...
, in the
Charente-Maritime Charente-Maritime (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Chérente-Marine''; ) is a Departments of France, department in the French Regions of France, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, on the country's west coast. Named after the river Charente (river), Charen ...
department, southwestern
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. The town is surrounded by fortifications in the form of a
Bastion fort A bastion fort or ''trace italienne'' (a phrase derived from non-standard French, meaning 'Italian outline') is a fortification in a style developed during the early modern period in response to the ascendancy of gunpowder weapons such as c ...
(similar to a "star fort".)


Population

Image:Chateau Oleron plan-relief.jpg, Le Château-d'Oléron, 1703 military mock-up Image:CHTO5.jpg, The main gate of the citadel Image:Chateau Oleron cabanes renovees.JPG, Old oyster farmers' huts renewed and converted into arts and crafts shops


See also

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Communes of the Charente-Maritime department The following is a list of the 462 communes of the Charente-Maritime department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):


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* Communes of Charente-Maritime Oléron Charente-Maritime communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia Star forts
Oléron The Isle of Oléron or Oléron Island (, ; Saintongese dialect, Saintongese: ''ilâte d'Olerun''; , ) is an island off the Atlantic coast of France (due west of Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Rochefort), on the southern side of the Pertuis d'Antio ...
Populated coastal places in France {{CharenteMaritime-geo-stub