Ploumagoar

Ploumagoar is a common department of the Coast-with Armor, in the area Brittany, in France.

Geography

History

The old name of Ploumagoar is Plouvagor.

With the fall of the Roman Empire, Brittons or Breton begin their movements of migration. Fleeing Pictes and the Saxon ones, they cross the English Channel and come to settle in Armorique.

These migrations will be done by successive waves and will last several centuries. A nation will be born and will become, in the centuries to come, a new independent State: Brittany.

The newcomers speak the same language as the natives about Armorique who will be minority and integrated. Let us specify that the English Channel or Mor Breizh was a natural road of almost daily relations between the Large one and Small Brittany. The trade, supported by the use of the same language on the two sides of the English Channel, was very flourishing there. The Breton ones thus arrive on the grounds of Ploumagoar by going up doubtless Trieux, and by seeking a high place to be able to defend oneself, they discover the vestiges of an old Roman citadel. It is at this time that Plouvagor reappears for the second time and becomes the borough which one knows today.

Parishes starting with Plou with alternatives Rained and Ploé, there are 169 in Brittany including 73 in the Coasts of Armor. They were born between 450 and 600. Magoar is not any Saint, come with the invaders, but means wall or ruins, word attested into Breton with Moguer, like Welsh with Magwyr. The same Magor root is found in the names Magoarou and Magoariec and means mason. Magoar would be a synonym of German Maurer and Italian Muratore.

Ploumagoar is thus a parish built on ruins or old vestiges and car its name of this origin. This parish will extend on considerable surfaces and includes all Right Bank of Trieux. It corresponds to the whole of wide of Ploumagoar, Pabu and Saint-Agathon today. The primitive parish of Ploumagoar was divided into dîmeries of which those of Tréméac, Goazanlès and Trivis. These subdivisions will give Trier de Pabu and of Saint-Agathon who will form integral part of the parish-mother, for a long time still. The town of Guingamp, for its part, will see its walls leaving ground only two or three centuries later, under the ceaseless invasions and plunderings of the Norman ones. Guingamp or Gwengamp into Breton that one breaks up into Gwen, white or happy in the direction of Lansus, and Gamp, the camp or refuge of the happy one.

Ploumagoar is attached to Pagus Tréher whose episcopal see is in Tréguier since the Life century. Saint Tugdual was the first bishop founder.

Tourist monuments and places

See too

Common of Coast-in Armor

External bonds

Ploumagoar on the site of the national geographical Institute
Ploumagoar on the site of INSEE
Ploumagoar on the site of Quid
Localization of Ploumagoar on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Ploumagoar on Mapquest
Site of the commune of Ploumagoar

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