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Commune of Landerneau |
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| Landerne | ||
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| Country | France | |
| Region | Bretagne | |
| Department | Finistère | |
| Arrondissement | Brest | |
| Canton | Landerneau (chief town) | |
| Intercommunality | C.C. du Pays de Landerneau-Daoulas | |
| Mayor | Jean-Pierre Thomin (2001-2008) |
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| Elevation | 1 m–175 m | |
| Land area¹ | 13.19 km² | |
| Population² (1999) |
14,281 | |
| - Density | 1,083/km² (1999) | |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 29103/ 29800 | |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | ||
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
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Landerneau (Landerne in Breton) is a town and commune in Finistère, Brittany. It is capital of the canton of the same name.
It lies at the mouth of the Elorn River which divides the Breton provinces of Cornouaille and Léon, 20 km east of Brest. The name means "(religious) enclosure of St Ténénan (Welsh: Tyrnog)": allegedly a Welshman who also had Llans in the Vale of Clwyd, North Wales and in Somerset, and who moved to Brittany in the 7th century. It was an important centre of the flax and linen industries in the 16th and 17th centuries. Today it is the main agricultural market in northwest Brittany.
A picturesque feature of the town centre is the 16th century house-lined bridge (the Pont de Rohan) across the Elorn.
Landerneau is twinned with the towns of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, Wales and Hünfeld in Germany.
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Demographics
Inhabitants of Landerneau are called Landernéens.
As of the census of 1999, the town has a population of 14,281.
Language
Landerneau has many bilingual signs (that means, French and Breton), and is the first town where the indications in the local station are made bilingual, as a result of the Ya d'ar brezhoneg charter of the Ofis ar Brezhoneg.[1]
There is a Diwan preschool and primary school in the town.
See also
References
External links
Media related to Landerneau at Wikimedia Commons.- (French) Landerneau Website
- (French) French Ministry of Culture list for Landerneau
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