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Issoudun
Issoudun () is a commune in the Indre department, administrative region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is also referred to as ''Issoundun'', which is the ancient name. Geography Location Issoudun is a sub-prefecture, located in the east of the Indre department. It is in the former region of Berry. The surrounding communes are: * Les Bordes (4 km) * Saint-Aoustrille (5 km) * St. Lizaigne (7 km) * Chouday (7 km) * Lizeray (8 km) * Condé (8 km) * Thizay (8 km) * Saint-Georges-sur-Arnon (10 km) * Saint-Ambroix (10 km) * Saugy (10 km) * Saint-Aubin (11 km) * Châteauroux (27 km) * Châtre (41 km) * Le Blanc (79 km) Terrain The river of Théols passes through Issoudun. The commune of Issoudun takes up an area of 36.6 km2. Transport The national road N151 passes through the area. The nearest airport is the Marcel Dassault Airport, 27 km away. The Issoudun station is located at 4 Pierre Favr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issoudun Aerodrome
Issoudun Aerodrome was a complex of military airfields in the vicinity of Issoudun, Centre, France. They were used during World War I as part of the Third Air Instructional Center, American Expeditionary Forces for training United States airmen prior to being sent into combat on the Western Front. It was at that time the largest air base in the world. Today the entire complex consists of agricultural fields, the military facility totally obscured with no trace of its wartime history. History Background By the summer of 1917, two and a half years of the air war had begun to take a serious toll on the number of French and British aviators. While the United States possessed a relatively enormous pool of human resources, they lacked the well developed training methods and aircraft production capabilities of the Allies. In order to maximize the resources of both, the French submitted a memorandum to General George O. Squier, then the Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army, suggest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté De Communes Du Pays D'Issoudun
The communauté de communes du Pays d'Issoudun is located in the Cher and Indre ''départements'' of the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. It came into force on 1 January 1994.CC du Pays d'Issoudun (N° SIREN : 243600236) BANATIC, accessed 17 October 2024. Its area is 310.7 km2, and its population was 19,822 in 2018.Comparateur de territoire INSEE, accessed 8 April 2022. Composition The communauté de communes consists of the following 12 communes, of which three (Chârost, Chezal-Benoît and Saint-Ambroix) in the Cher department: ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip II Of France
Philip II (21 August 1165 – 14 July 1223), also known as Philip Augustus (), was King of France from 1180 to 1223. His predecessors had been known as kings of the Franks (Latin: ''rex Francorum''), but from 1190 onward, Philip became the first French monarch to style himself "King of France" (''rex Francie''). The son of King Louis VII and his third wife, Adela of Champagne, he was originally nicknamed () because he was a first son and born late in his father's life. Philip was given the epithet "Augustus" by the chronicler Rigord for having extended the crown lands of France so remarkably. After decades of conflicts with the House of Plantagenet, Philip succeeded in putting an end to the Angevin Empire by defeating a coalition of his rivals at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214. This victory would have a lasting impact on western European politics: the authority of the French king became unchallenged, while John, King of England, was forced by his barons to assent to Magna C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Army Air Service
The United States Army Air Service (USAAS)Craven and Cate Vol. 1, p. 9 (also known as the ''"Air Service"'', ''"U.S. Air Service"'' and before its legislative establishment in 1920, the ''"Air Service, United States Army"'') was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1918 and 1926 and a forerunner of the United States Air Force. It was established as an independent but temporary branch of the United States Department of War, U.S. War Department during World War I by two executive orders of President Woodrow Wilson: on May 24, 1918, replacing the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, Aviation Section, Signal Corps as the nation's air force; and March 19, 1919, establishing a military Director of Air Service to control all aviation activities., p. 149, Appendix 2 Redesignations of the Army Air Arm, 1907–1942. Its life was extended for another year in July 1919, during which time Congress passed the legislation necessary to make it a permanent establ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indre
Indre (); is a department in central France named after the river Indre. The inhabitants of the department are known as the ''Indriens'' (masculine; ) and ''Indriennes'' (feminine; ). Indre is part of the current administrative region of Centre-Val de Loire. The region is bordered by the departments of Indre-et-Loire to the west, Loir-et-Cher to the north, Cher to the east, Creuse and Haute-Vienne to the south, and Vienne to the southwest. The préfecture (capital) is Châteauroux and there are three subpréfectures at Le Blanc, La Châtre and Issoudun. It had a population of 219,316 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 36 Indre INSEE It also contains the geographic centre of Metropolitan Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Courtenay, Marchioness Of Namur
Margaret de Courtenay, Marchioness of Namur (c. 1194 – Marienthal, 17 July 1270) was ruling Marchioness of Namur, from 1229 to 1237. She was the daughter of Peter of Courtenay (d. 1219), Latin Emperor of Constantinople (1216-1219) and Yolanda of Flanders (d. 1219). By her second marriage, to Henry I, Count of Vianden (d. 1252), Margaret was Countess-consort of Vianden. Life In some later sources, Margaret was also called ''Sybille''. She was first married to the French noble Raoul III, Lord of Issoudun (c. 1208), who should not be confused with Raoul I of Exoudun (d. 1219). Her husband composed his will in 1212, and died soon after, without sons. According to customs, Raoul's main domains passed to his distant cousin Guillaume de Chauvigny, who was also his brother-in-law, while Margaret claimed possession over Châteauneuf-sur-Cher and Mareuil-en-Berry. Soon after that (c. 1216) she remarried to Henry I, Count of Vianden (d. 1252). Henry was the son of Frederic II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Tour De France, Stage 1 To Stage 11
These are the individual stages of the 2009 Tour de France, with Stage 1 on July 4 and Stage 11 on July 15. Stages Stage 1 4 July 2009 — Monaco, 15.5 km (Individual time trial, ITT) The 2009 Tour began, as have many in the past, with an individual time trial, but instead of a very brief prologue, this 15 kilometer ride saw the race's overall favorites show themselves on day one. The favourite for the stage, Fabian Cancellara, won with Alberto Contador coming in second. Time-trial specialist Bradley Wiggins came third. Stage 2 5 July 2009 — Monaco to Brignoles, 182 km This stage was largely flat, but had one third category, and three fourth category, climbs in its first 129 km, and most of the last 15 km was downhill. A four-man breakaway (Stéphane Augé, Stef Clement, Cyril Dessel and Jussi Veikkanen) held a maximum advantage of some 5 minutes, but they were caught with 10 km remaining, initially by Mikhail Ignatiev (cyclist), Mikhail Ignatiev, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Laignel
André Laignel (; born 4 December 1942 in Paris) is a French politician. of the Socialist Party (PS) who has been serving as the mayor of Issoudun, first delegated vice-president of the (AMF) and the President of the (CFL). Political career In July 2022, Laignel declared his candidacy of the Presidency of the (ANCT). Ahead of the Socialist Party's 2017 primaries, Laignel publicly endorsed Benoît Hamon as the party's candidate for the presidential election later that year.Gérard Bon (23 January 2017Aubry et ses proches appellent à voter HamonReuters Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency .... Notes and references 1942 births Living people Politicians from Paris Convention of Republican Institutions politicians Deputies of the 7th National Assembly of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chârost
Chârost () is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. Geography A farming village situated by the banks of the river Arnon, some southwest of Bourges at the junction of the N151 with the D16, D88, D18 and D2 roads. The commune lies on the pilgrimage route known as St. James' Way. Population Sights * The church of St. Michel, dating from the nineteenth century. * The fifteenth-century chateau. * Wayside stone crosses. * Traces of an eleventh-century castle donjon. See also *Communes of the Cher department The following is a list of the 286 communes of the Cher department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025): References {{DEFAULTSORT:Charost Communes of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théols
The Théols is a river in central France. Its source is at near Bommiers, in the Boischaut natural region. It joins the Arnon near Lazenay. Hydrology The flow of the river was studied from 1971 to 1975 at Sainte-Lizaigne, located about from its confluence with the Arnon. At this point it drains , over 90% of its watershed. The river has an average flow of at Sainte-Lizaigne. There are seasonal fluctuations in the flow of the Théols, but they are not substantial. The highest flow rates are from February to May, with average flows from (peak February–March). From April, the flow rate decreases regularly toward low water, which lasts from August to October. Floods are seldom important. The daily maximum flow recorded at Sainte-Lizaigne was on March 22, 1974. Its yearly drainage basin precipitation is currently , just over a third of the national average of , and also below the average of for the Loire basin () and the Arnon (). The discharge was hence per km² of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capetian–Plantagenet Rivalry
The First Hundred Years' War (; 1159–1259) was a series of conflicts and disputes during the High Middle Ages in which the House of Capet, rulers of the Kingdom of France, fought the House of Plantagenet (also known as the House of Anjou or the Angevins), rulers of the Kingdom of England. The conflict emerged over the fiefs in France held by the Angevins, which at their peak covered around half of the territory of the French realm. The struggle between the two dynasties resulted in the gradual conquest of these fiefs by the Capetians and their annexation to the French crown lands, as well as subsequent attempts by the House of Plantagenet to retake what they believed to be their rightful ancestral claims in western France. The First Hundred Years' War is retroactively named after the Hundred Years' War from 1337 to 1453 as it is seen as a precursor to the later conflict, involving many of the same belligerents and dynasties. Like the "second" Hundred Years' War, this con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Le Goulet
The Treaty of Le Goulet was a treaty signed by King John of England and King Philip II of France in May 1200. It ended the first succession war following Richard I’s death, temporarily settling territorial disputes over Normandy and recognizing John as the rightful heir and King of England. The peace held until Philip's invasion of Normandy in 1202, which led to continental Normandy formal annexation to the crown lands of France. The treaty was signed at Le Goulet, an island in the middle of the Seine river near Vernon in Normandy. It clarified the feudal hierarchy between the two monarchs, with John acknowledging Philip as his overlord for his French lands. In return, Philip dropped his support for Arthur of Brittany (son of John’s late brother Geoffrey) and accepted John’s claim to the English throne. As part of the deal, John paid Philip 20,000 marks as relief in exchange for formal recognition of his rule over Brittany. John also accepted that the counts of Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
