This article is about the region and former province of France. For the breeds of animal from this region, see Baudet de Poitou and Poitou goat. For other uses, see Poitou (disambiguation).
Place in France
Poitou
Poetou(Poitevin)
Flag
Coat of arms
Country
France
Area
• Total
19,709 km2 (7,610 sq mi)
Population
(2006 estimate) Residents known as Poitevins[1]
• Total
1,375,356
Time zone
CET
Count
638–677, Guérin de Trèves 1403–1461, Charles VII of France
Poitou (UK: /ˈpwʌtuː/, US: /pwɑːˈtuː/,[2][3][4]French:[pwatu]; Latin: Pictaviensis, Pictavia; Poitevin: Poetou) was a province of west-central France whose capital city was Poitiers. Both Poitou and Poitiers are named after the Pictones Gallic tribe.
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Poitou (UK: /ˈpwʌtuː/, US: /pwɑːˈtuː/, French: [pwatu]; Latin: Pictaviensis, Pictavia; Poitevin: Poetou) was a province of west-central France whose capital...
The Baudet du Poitou, also called the Poitevin or Poitou donkey, is a French breed of donkey. It is one of the largest breeds, and jacks (donkey stallions)...
The Poitou goat (French: Chèvre Poitevine) is a dairy goat breed from western France. With a history dating back to 1800, the breed is named for the Poitou...
the region composed of Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes and Limousin was temporarily called Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes. However, the combined region...
The County of Poitou (Latin comitatus Pictavensis) was a historical region of France, consisting of the three sub-regions of Vendée, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne...
The palace of the Counts of Poitou/Dukes of Aquitaine in Poitiers in Poitou in western France is a medieval testimony of the Plantagenet style of architecture...
Chabichou (French pronunciation: [ʃabiʃu]; also known as Chabichou du Poitou) is a traditional semi-soft, unpasteurized, natural-rind French goat cheese...
Count of Poitiers (French: Comte de Poitiers, Latin: Comes Pictaviensis; or Poitou, in what is now France but in the Middle Ages became part of Aquitaine)...
William FitzEmpress (22 July 1136 – 30 January 1164) or William Longespee was the youngest of the three sons of Empress Matilda and Geoffrey Plantagenet...
Roger the Poitevin or Roger de Poitou (mid-1060s – before 1140) was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat possessing large holdings both in England and through his...
Agnes of Poitou (c. 1025 – 14 December 1077) was the queen of Germany from 1043 and empress of the Holy Roman Empire from 1046 until 1056 as the wife of...
symptoms was described from Poitou in western France in a work of 1616 by François Citois. It was known in English sources as Poitou colic. It was likewise...
The Seuil du Poitou (literally "Poitou's Threshold") is a geological denomination for an area in western central France where the Paris (Northeast) and...
England, and Isabella, Countess of Angoulême. Richard was nominal Count of Poitou from 1225 to 1243, and he also held the title Earl of Cornwall since 1225...
marshland in the former province of Poitou in western France. It is a remnant of what was the former Gulf of Poitou [fr]. The western zone near the sea...
In mathematics, Tate duality or Poitou–Tate duality is a duality theorem for Galois cohomology groups of modules over the Galois group of an algebraic...
Raymond of Poitiers (c. 1105–29 June 1149) was Prince of Antioch from 1136 to 1149. He was the younger son of William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, and his wife...
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