Calvados
The department of Calvados [ kalvado ː s] is a French department of order number 14 It is in the north of the country in the Basse -Normandie and is according to the Plateau du Calvados -called riffs, which are upstream of the coast in this area, named.
Geography
The department is bordered to the north east (opposite the Seine- Delta ) to the department of Seine -Maritime, on the east by the department of Eure, both in the Haute-Normandie region, to the south by the department of Orne and to the west by the department of Manche. In the north of Calvados is the English Channel. The Bessin is a landscape in the area of Bayeux.
Coat of arms
Description: Blue and red by wave cut split crest down two golden leopard with blue reinforcement and tongue.
History
The department was formed from a portion of the then existing provincial Normandy during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was subdivided into six districts (French: district ), the precursors of the arrondissements. The districts were Bayeux, Caen, Falaise, Lisieux, Pont- l'Évêque and Vire. The department and the districts subdivided into 71 cantons and 1791 had 391 352 inhabitants. Capital was already then Caen.
The arrondissements were established on 17 February in 1800. All six districts were made arrondissement, while the cantons were re-cut.
On September 10, 1926, the arrondissements were dissolved Falaise ( Caen ) and Pont- l'Évêque ( to Lisieux ).
In 1956, the Department of the then newly formed region of Basse -Normandie has been assigned.
Cities
The most densely populated municipalities in the department of Calvados:
Administrative divisions
- List of municipalities in the department of Calvados
- List of cantons in the department of Calvados
Climate
Observed at Deauville, hinterland, 144 meters above sea level
Days per year with
- Rainfall over 1 mm: 134
- Frost: 43 First Frost: November 19
- Last frost: April 14
(As of 1991)