Angoumois

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Coat of arms of Angoumois

Angoumois was an old province of France, nearly corresponding today to the Charente département. Its capital was Angoulême.

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

v • d • e Historic Provinces of France Provinces in 1789 Alsace • Angoumois • Anjou • Artois • Aunis • Auvergne • Basse-Navarre • Béarn • Beaujolais • Berry • Bourbonnais • Burgundy • Brittany • Champagne • Corsica • Dauphiné • Flanders/Hainaut (Flanders & Hainaut) • Pays de Foix • Forez • Franche-Comté • Gascony • Guyenne • Île-de-France • Languedoc • Landau • Limousin • Lorraine • Lyonnais • Maine • Marche • Nivernais • Normandie • Orléanais • Perche • Picardy • Poitou • Provence • Roussillon • Saintonge • Touraine • Trois-Évêchés After the Revolution Avignon1 and the Comtat Venaissin1 • Montbéliard2 • Mulhouse3 • Savoy4 • Nice4 1 1791.   2 1793.   3 1798.   4 1860.

Coordinates: 45°39′N 0°10′E / 45.65°N 0.167°E / 45.65; 0.167

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