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Verdun ( / vɜːrˈdʌn /, [3] also UK: / ˈvɛərdʌn /, [4] US: / vɛərˈdʌn /, [5] French: [vɛʁdœ̃] ⓘ; official name before 1970: Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department. Verdun is the biggest city in Meuse, although the capital of the department ...
Brest ( French pronunciation: [bʁɛst] ⓘ; [3] Breton pronunciation: [bʀest] [4]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France, [5] Brest is an important harbour and the second largest French military port after ...
Chinon ( French pronunciation: [ʃinɔ̃] ⓘ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire, France. [3] The traditional province around Chinon, Touraine, became a favorite resort of French kings and their nobles beginning in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
The golden era of the medieval town was between 950 and 1350, by the year 1100 small towns were being established all over Europe. The Normans also had a big influence on the development of medieval towns. Early medieval towns and cities were quite small compared to today’s standards, however as time progressed and moved towards the high and ...
Carcassonne ( / ˌkɑːrkəˈsɒn /, [3] [4] US also /- ˈsɔːn, - ˈsoʊn /, [5] French: [kaʁkasɔn] ⓘ, locally [kaχkaˈsɔnə]; Occitan: Carcassona [kaɾkaˈsunɔ]; Latin: Carcaso) is a French fortified city in the department of Aude, region of Occitania. It is the prefecture of the department. Inhabited since the Neolithic, Carcassonne ...
^ Bastide emphasises the "built" nature of the enterprise; in spite of the fortified connotations of Bastille, most of the present town walls were not built initially, though their strategic location was a consideration from the start, in part through contractual promises of future military support from the new occupants.
Rouen ( UK: / ˈruːɒ̃, ˈruːɒn /, US: / ruːˈɒ̃, ruːˈɒn /; [3] [4] French: [ʁwɑ̃] ⓘ or [ʁu.ɑ̃]) [needs Norman IPA] is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the region of Normandy and the department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, the ...
