Lot-et-Garonne
The department of Lot- et- Garonne [ lɔtegaʀɔn ] is a French department of atomic number 47 It is in the southwest of the country in the Aquitaine region and is named after the Lot and Garonne.
Geography
The department is located in the eastern part of the Aquitaine region. It is bordered on the north by the department of Dordogne, in the east, southeast and south by the department of Lot, Tarn -et -Garonne and Gers Midi -Pyrenees region as well as in the southwest and west by the departments of Landes and Gironde.
Most important rivers are the eponymous Garonne, which crosses the department of Südostem to the northwest and thereby passed the capital, in the southeast Agen, and the equally eponymous Lot, who pervades the department in the east-west direction until it in Aiguillon as a right tributary the Garonne empties. The west of the department covers the reaching to the Atlantic coastal forest area the Landes forest.
Coat of arms
Description: The coat of arms is quartered:
- Field 1 is red and has the right one ansitz end golden eagle on a pole made a golden piece of wood with the inscription in black letters " AGEN " and left a golden stone castle with a black door and window and two stepped side towers and a higher central tower with battlements and pointed roof. On the towers each waving a golden cut to the left flag.
- Field 2 is red and the blue sign with the main three golden lilies make four silver battlement towers a wicked cross, in the center of which binds a silver crutch cross.
- Field 3 is blue with golden sun with face.
- Field 4 in a silver blue brick schwarzgefugte stone bridge with five arch bridge under which is a silver Wellenschildfuß. On the bridge there are three pointed brick fünfzinnige towers in the same way, the middle is the larger, and the side towers floats the golden lily.
History
The department was formed during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790 from parts of the former provinces of Guyenne and Gascogne. It was subdivided into nine districts (French: district ), the precursors of the arrondissements. The districts were Agen, Casteljaloux, Lauzun, Marmande, Monflanquin, Nerac, Tonneins, Valence and Villeneuve. The department and the districts subdivided into cantons, and had about 260,000 (?) Inhabitants. Capital was already Agen.
The arrondissements Agen, Marmande, Nerac and Villeneuve -sur -Lot were established on 17 February in 1800. On November 4, 1808 parts of the arrondissements of Agen and Villeneuve -sur -Lot were in the newly established Department of Tarn- et- Garonne (now the Midi-Pyrenees region ) outsourced. On September 10, 1926, the arrondissement Nerac was disbanded, but re-established in the same size on 1 June 1942.
Cities
The most densely populated municipalities of the department of Lot- et- Garonne are:
Administrative divisions
The department of Lot- et- Garonne is divided into 4 arrondissements, 40 cantons and 319 communes: