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Bouguenais
Bouguenais (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Loire-Atlantique Departments of France, department in western France near Nantes. Bouguenais is home to the Nantes Atlantique Airport. Population Economy Régional, a regional airline, was headquartered on the grounds of Nantes Atlantique Airport. Régional was formed on 30 March 2001 with the merger of Regional Airlines (France), Regional Airlines, Flandre Air, and Proteus Airlines.History ." Régional. Retrieved on 2 May 2010. Before the formation of Régional, Regional Airlines had its headquarters on the grounds of the airport."World Airline Directory." ''Flight International''. 3–9 April 2001 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2018). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations. It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former duchy and province, and its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial. Nantes was identified during classical antiquity as a port on the Loire. It was the seat of a bishopric at the end of the Roman era before it was conquered by the Bretons in 851. Although Nantes was the primary residence of the 15th-century dukes of Brittany, Rennes became the provincial capital after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
