Vieux-Habitants
Vieux-Habitants (, French for ''Old Inhabitants''; ) is a commune on Guadeloupe, a French overseas department in the Caribbean. It is located on the southwest coast of the island of Basse-Terre. History This is the oldest parish, founded in 1636, when the first French settlers inhabited the west coast near the present site of Vieux Habitants. The name, meaning "Old Settlers" derives from the fact that many employees of the West Indies Company retired here and preferred to be called "inhabitants" to distinguish between themselves and the slaves. It grew gradually as an agricultural area, famous for its coffee, vanilla and Creole gardens. Geography Vieux-Habitants is located in the southwest of Basse-Terre island, 87 kilometres southwest of Pointe à Pitre. It is bordered by the commune of Baillif to the south and Bouillante to the north. The commune also contains the village of Marigot to the north, between Vieux-Habitants village and Bouilliante. The Grand-Rivières river and f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Guadeloupe Division D'Honneur
The Guadeloupe Division of Honour ''(French: Guadeloupe Division d'Honneur)'' is the top Association football, football league in Guadeloupe. It was created in 1952 and is headed by the Guadeloupean League of Football. 18 teams participate. The last 3 placed teams are relegated to the Guadeloupe Regional Honorary Promotion Championship, Honorary Promotion Championship. Clubs (2022–23) Poule A *CS Capesterrien (Capesterre-Belle-Eau) *CERFA (Les Abymes) *La Gauloise de Basse-Terre, La Gauloise (Basse-Terre) *Association Sportive Le Gosier, AS Gosier (Le Gosier) *AN Jeunesse Évolution, Jeunesse Évolution (Les Abymes) *CS Moulien (Le Moule) *Red Star Baie Mahault, Red Star (Baie-Mahault) *Sporting Baie Mahault, Sporting B/M (Baie-Mahault) *JS Vieux-Habitants (Vieux-Habitants) Poule B *Dynamo Le Moule (Le Moule) *L'Etoile de Morne-à-l'Eau, L'Etoile (Morne-à-l'Eau) *AO Gourbeyrienne (Gourbeyre) *ASG Juventus de Sainte-Anne, Juventus SA (Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, Sainte-Anne ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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JS Vieux-Habitants
JS Vieux-Habitants is a Guadeloupean professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ... club based in the town of Vieux-Habitants. They play in Guadeloupe's first division, the Guadeloupe Division of Honor. Achievements * Guadeloupe Championnat National: 2 :: 2006, 2010 External links Tour des clubs 2008–2009nbsp;– Gwadafoot (archived) Club infonbsp;– French Football Federation JS Vieux-Habitantsat Soccerway Vieux-Habitants {{Guadeloupe-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Victorin Lurel
Victorin Lurel ( ; born 20 August 1951 in Vieux-Habitants, Guadeloupe) is a French politician who represented the 4th district of Guadeloupe in the French National Assembly from 2002 to 2012. He also served as the President of the Regional Council of the French overseas department The overseas departments and regions of France (, ; DROM) are the five departments and regions of the French Republic which are located outside European France (also known as " metropolitan France"). These overseas entities have exactly the s ... of Guadeloupe from 2004 until 2015. His term began on 15 August 2004 and was renewed on 14 March 2010. In May 2012, he was made the Minister of Overseas France in Jean-Marc Ayrault's cabinet and was replaced in the national assembly by his supplementary candidate Hélène Vainqueur-Christophe. However, on 23 March 2014, he lost the local elections in Vieux-Habitants, and as of 2 April 2014, he was not reappointed to the Valls Cabinet. On 13 Dece ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Baillif
Baillif (; ) is a communes of the Guadeloupe department, commune of Guadeloupe, an overseas departments and regions of France, overseas region and department of France located in the Lesser Antilles. Baillif is a suburb of Basse-Terre, the prefectures in France, prefecture and the second-largest urban area of Guadeloupe located on Guadeloupe#Geography, Basse-Terre Island (the western half of Guadeloupe). History In 1637, Governor De L'Olive conceded a parcel of land to the Dominican friars, from the Fathers' river to that of Baillif, and today these mark out the boundary of the town. Under the leadership of Father Labat, several fortresses were built in Baillif to protect the region from English invasion. The Dominicans came to preach the good news of Jesus. Following the defeat of Napoleon in the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the governor of Guadeloupe, the Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois, Comte de Linois refused to surrender his position to the Bourbon Restoration in France, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bouillante
Bouillante (; ) is a '' commune'' in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. History Bouillante was founded about 1635 with the arrival of some of Guadeloupe's first colonists. It was originally named ''Islets à Goyaves'' ("Islet of Guavas") until the beginning of the 18th century, when the name was changed to ''Fontaines Bouillantes'' after the island's hot springs that were known for their therapeutic virtues. With the end of the Ancien Régime, the civil authorities and religious leaders renamed the city ''Bouillante''. Saint Louis, the religious character, is the patron saint of the commune. Bouillante knew its apogee during the 17th century. It occupied an important place on the island through the policy of the Kingdom of France. The king wanted to make Guadeloupe a colony of settlement based on the family small-scale farming and the introduction of volunteers. The latter, from France, were regarded as the first European inhabita ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre Island, Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and two Îles des Saintes—as well as many uninhabited islands and outcroppings. It is south of Antigua and Barbuda and Montserrat and north of Dominica. The capital city is Basse-Terre, on the southern west coast of Basse-Terre Island; the most populous city is Les Abymes and the main centre of business is neighbouring Pointe-à-Pitre, both on Grande-Terre Island. It had a population of 395,726 in 2024. Like the other overseas departments, it is an integral part of France. As a constituent territory of the European Union and the eurozone, the euro is its official currency and any European Union citizen is free to settle and work there indefinitely, but is not part of the Schengen Area. It included Saint Barthélemy and C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Communes Of Guadeloupe
The following is a list of the 32 communes of the Guadeloupe overseas department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Périmètre des groupements en 2025 BANATIC. Accessed 28 May 2025. * Communauté d'agglomération CAP Excellence * Communauté d'agglomération Grand Sud Caraïbe * Communauté d'agglomérat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Communes Of The Guadeloupe Department
The following is a list of the 32 Communes of France, communes of the Guadeloupe overseas department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):Périmètre des groupements en 2025 BANATIC. Accessed 28 May 2025. *Communauté d'agglomération CAP Excellence *Communauté d'agglomération Grand Sud Caraïbe *Communauté d'agglomération du Nord Basse-Terre *Communauté d'agglomération du Nord Grande-Terre *Communauté d'agglomération La Riviéra du Levant *Communauté de communes de Marie-Galante Former communes detached from Guadeloupe on 22 February 2007: References {{Guadeloupe communes Communes of Guadeloupe, Lists of communes of France, Guadeloupe Administrative divisions in North America, Guadeloupe 3 ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Guadeloupe National Park
Guadeloupe National Park () is a national park in Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France located in the Leeward Islands of the eastern Caribbean region. The Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin Nature Reserve (French: ''Réserve Naturelle du Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin'') is a marine protected area adjacent to the park and administered in conjunction with it. Together, these protected areas comprise the Guadeloupe Archipelago (French: ''l'Archipel de la Guadeloupe'') biosphere reserve. History The General councils of France, General Council of Guadeloupe created the Guadeloupe Regional natural parks of France, Natural Park in 1970 to recognise the exceptional biodiversity of Basse-Terre Island, Basse-Terre's tropical forest and mountain massif. Although it was initially placed under the management of the National Forests Office, proposals emerged in 1977 to establish a national park, in order to improve management and control of the park lands. These proposals came to fruition on 20 Feb ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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President Of The Regional Council (France)
The following is a list of current presidents of the Regional council (France), regional councils of France. All regions in metropolitan France are governed by a regional council, with their respective presidents elected by and among their members to lead the executive; the Corsican Assembly is the sole exception, as it controls the Executive Council of Corsica, Executive Council. In overseas France, the local institutions vary across the five regions. List Since 2011, the Departmental Council of Mayotte has simultaneously exercised the competencies of a regional council. Since 2015, the Regional Council of Martinique and the Regional Council of French Guiana have been merged with their respective Departmental council (France), departmental councils to form a single territorial structure of governance. List Summary By party By sex Historic presidents Current regions Regional Council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Council of Brittany Regional Co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |