See also: the Gironde (homonymy)
The department of the Gironde (33) is a French Département located in the south-west of the country in Aquitaine. This department owes its name with the Estuaire of the Gironde (in Occitan Gascon Gironda , in Saintongeais Ghironde ) which occurs after the junction of the the Dordogne and the the Garonne to the nozzle of Ambès, downstream from Bordeaux. The Gironde is the greatest department of Metropolitan France and 2nd after the Guyana.
The department was created with the French revolution, the March 4th 1790 pursuant to the law of the December 22nd 1789, starting from part of old the provinces of Guyenne and Gascogne.
It was also called Nozzle-in Ambès, of 1793 with 1795, at the time where the term the Gironde indicated the origin of the parliamentary group of the Girondin S which all were then stopped.
the Gironde is made up of 3 distinct entities, with a historical heritage which is clean for them:
Between 1789 and 1850, the Western part of the department was covered of badly drained moors (on approximately 60% to 70% of space). This moor was maintained by burn-beating in order to provide in food the large herds of Mouton S, supervised by Berger S assembled on stilt S; the use of these last made it possible to achieve more easily of long distances (15 to 20 kilometers per day), while supervising the herd. Before 1857, date of the Law of cleansing and setting in culture of the Moors of Gascogne, the mode agropastoral is generalized: it draws its force in the free use of communal majority. Then the systematization of the plantations of pine S exploited for their Resin (Gemmage) and their wood, accompanied by the sale by communal during second half of the XIXe century, completely modified the landscape and the economy of half of the department.
detailed Article: Geography of the Gironde
The Gironde belongs to the area Aquitaine. It is bordering on the departments of the Landes, of Lot-et-Garonne, the the Dordogne and the Charente-Maritime.
The Gironde is crossed by the the Dordogne and the the Garonne.
The territory structure in 4 distinct entities:
Bazadais, structured around the town of Bazas. Without real wine production, it is a country of Polyculture; production of Corn, Tobacco, Tomato S, Asparagus S and breeding of the Bazadaise race, as well as wood plantations. The Gascon traditions are goods there anchored. It is the country of Clément V, Gascon pope essentially. It is in this country that one finds the greatest number of historic buildings of the Gironde: Cathedral of Bazas (world heritage of UNESCO), the Castle of Roquetaillade, Trunk, Cazeneuve, Budos, Fargues, Villandraut, collegial of Uzeste.
A western and southern majority of the department belongs to the Gascogne and shelters most of the drill of the Landes of Gascogne. The Gironde profits from a broad coastal opening of 126 km on the Atlantic Ocean, of the Pointe of Low register in the south of the Bassin of Arcachon. The Girondin littoral opened with balneal tourism, in particular around the Bassin of Arcachon. Principal the Seaside resorts is North in the South:
Soulac
The Dune of Pilat is the principal tourist attraction of the Girondin littoral.
The inhabitants of the Gironde are the Girondins .
Since the beginning of the XXe century, the State imposed the practice of the French.
Jean Anouilh, dramatic author, born the June 23rd 1910 with Bordeaux
Prefecture of the Gironde
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