Aguiéne
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Aguiéne (native name) or Aguiaine (Standard French name) is the area where the Poetevin-Séntunjhaes language is spoken, in midwest France. This is an old medieval name, derived from Latin Aquitania, which was revived with the current sens by linguist Jacques Duguet in 1976[1].
Aguiéne can be viewed on this map.
It comprises the following zones:
- From a historical point of view, the traditional provinces of Poitou, Saintonge, Aunis and Angoumois.
- From an administrative point of view: the official region of Poitou-Charentes and the department of Vendée (adding some strips of the nearby departments of Loire-Atlantique, Maine-et-Loire, Indre, Dordogne and Gironde, but removing a western strip of Poitou-Charente where Occitan is spoken).
The main cities of Aguiéne are Poitiers, Niort, La Rochelle, Angoulême, Saintes and La Roche-sur-Yon.
Aguiéne includes some little islands of the Atlantic Ocean, near the mainland, which are Noirmoutier, Yeu, Ré, l'Ile d'Aix and Oléron.
Notes
- ↑ DUGUET Jacques (1976) “Qu'est-ce que l'Aguiaine?” Société d’études folkloriques du Centre-Ouest 10, p. 161-163