Nantes
Nantes is a city in France, the prefecture of the Pays de la Loire region and the Loire-Atlantique department, on the Atlantic Ocean. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, it was the busiest slave trading port in France.[1] Before 1941, Nantes was part of Brittany. The Gallo and Breton languages are spoken in the city. Jules Verne was a famous writer from Nantes.
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Motto: Latin: Favet Neptunus eunti | ||||||
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| Top to bottom, left to right: the Loire in central Nantes; the Castle of the Dukes of Brittany; the Pommeraye Arcade, and the Isle of Nantes between the branches of the Loire | ||||||
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| Country | France | |||||
| Region | Pays de la Loire | |||||
| Department | Loire-Atlantique | |||||
| Arrondissement | Nantes | |||||
| Canton | 7 cantons | |||||
| Intercommunality | Nantes Métropole | |||||
| Mayor | Johanna Rolland (PS) (2014–2020) | |||||
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| Land area1 | 65.19 km2 (25.17 sq mi) | |||||
| Population2 | 298,029 (2016 census) | |||||
| - Ranking | 6th in France | |||||
| - Density | 4,572/km2 (11,840/sq mi) | |||||
| Urban area | 537.70 km2 (207.61 sq mi) (2008) | |||||
| - Population | 612782 (2013) | |||||
| Metro area | 3,302 km2 (1,275 sq mi) (2013) | |||||
| - Population | 908815 (2013) | |||||
| Time zone | CET (GMT +1) | |||||
| INSEE/Postal code | 44109/ 44000, 44100, 44200 and 44300 | |||||
| Dialling code | 02 | |||||
| Website | nantes.fr | |||||
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | ||||||
| 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||||||
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Nantes has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).
Education
Twin towns
Nantes has town twinning and cooperation agreements with:
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Friendship relations
The city has friendship relations with:
Guinea, since 1992.
St. Martinville, Louisiana, U.S., since 1993.
Jericho, West Bank, since 2001.
Desdunes and Petionville, Haiti, since 2005.
Nantes, Quebec, Canada, since 2009.
Gallery
Port 
Another view of the cathedral 
Feydeau island 
La Marie Séraphique, a slave ship that traveled from Nantes
Nantes Media
The confluence of the Erdre and the Loire (where Nantes was founded) in an 1890s photochrom. The river channels in the picture were diverted and filled in during the 1920s and subsequently replaced with roads.
Section of the Roman city wall
Nantes Cathedral, rebuilt in the Gothic style beginning in the 15th century
Typical 18th-century façades in Nantes
Cours Cambronne, a terrace developed at the end of the 18th century
Painting of the 1793–1794 Drownings at Nantes
The port of Nantes in 1912, with the demolished transporter bridge in the distance
Central Nantes in the first half of the 20th century. Waterways filled in from 1926 to 1946 are in brown, and buildings destroyed by American air raids in 1943 are in red.
Nantes as seen by SPOT in 2004
The Erdre (a tributary of the Loire), with the Brittany Tower in the background
References
- ↑ Tibbles, Anthony (2000). "Ports of the Transatlantic slave trade". National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
Again in France we can come up with a list of nearly 20 ports which were involved with the trade at some point but there were four principal slaving ports: Nantes, Bordeaux, La Rochelle and Le Havre. Over the period, Nantes sent 45% of all the ships in the French trade the other three sending 11% of the trade each and the rest shared between the other ports.