Balledent
Balledent is a common French, located in the department of the High-Vienna and the area the Limousin.
Denominations
Balledent is called, in the dialect the Limousin of the language Occitan E, Baladent .
Toponymy
Balledent, village where one had the tooth. “To ball tooth” of the old French verb also existing in the occitan “to ball”, dance, meant to burst hunger. The ground was so poor and so difficult to cultivate that the famished peasants had given this name to their village. It is one of some villages and localities of France of which the name, created and transmitted by the " small gens" (popular etymology), is related on the hardness of its ground for the peasants or to the production of icelle like Rompéchine in Charente, Bapaume in the Pas-de-Calais, Bramefaim in the the Limousin also, Bréviandes in Champagne-Ardenne and various communes with the name resulting from the same root, or Make fun-Barrel in Touraine among a multitude of others…
Geography
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Personalities related to the commune
See too
- Common of High-Vienna
External bonds
- Balledent on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Balledent on the site of INSEE
- Balledent on the site of Quid
- Localization of Balledent on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Balledent on Mapquest