Place:Indre, France

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NameIndre
TypeDépartement
Coordinates46.75°N 1.517°E
Located inFrance
Also located inCentre, France    
Contained Places
Canton
Argenton
Ecueillé (canton)
La Châtre (canton)
Commune
Aigurande
Argenton-sur-Creuse
Brives
Chouday
Châteauroux
Faverolles
Issoudun
La Berthenoux
La Châtre
Le Blanc
Meunet-Planches
Migny
Ménétréols-sous-Vatan
Nohant-Vic
Paudy
Reuilly
Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
Saint-Christophe-en-Boucherie
Saint-Plantaire
Sainte-Lizaigne
Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre
Ségry
Valençay
Vatan
Vigoulant
Inhabited place
Blanc
Bouges
Buzançais
Bélâbre
Chabris
Châtillon-sur-Indre
Châtre
Déols
Fontgombault
Gargilesse-Dampierre
Les Morins
Levroux
Lizeray
Lourouer-Saint-Laurent
Méobecq
Mézières-en-Brenne
Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre
Paulnay
Saint-Christophe-en-Bazelle
Saint-Gaultier
Saint-Genou
Thevet-Saint-Julien
Écueillé
Unknown
Aize
Ambrault
Anjouin
Ardentes
Argy
Arpheuilles
Arthon
Azay-le-Ferron
Badecon-le-Pin
Bagneux
Baraize
Baudres
Bazaiges
Beaulieu
Bommiers
Bonneuil
Bouesse
Bouges-le-Château
Bretagne
Briantes
Brion
Buxeuil
Buxières-d'Aillac
Ceaulmont
Celon
Chaillac
Chalais
Champillet
Chantôme
Chasseneuil
Chassignolles
Chavin
Chazelet
Chezelles
Chitray
Ciron
Clion
Cluis
Cléré-du-Bois
Coings
Concremiers
Condé
Crevant
Crozon-sur-Vauvre
Cuzion
Diors
Diou
Douadic
Dun-le-Poëlier
Dunet
Eguzon
Etrechet
Feusines
Fléré-la-Rivière
Fontenay
Fontguenand
Fougerolles
Francillon
Frédille
Gehée
Giroux
Gournay
Guilly
Heugnes
Ingrandes
Jeu-Maloches
Jeu-les-Bois
La Buxerette
La Champenoise
La Chapelle-Orthemale
La Chapelle-Saint-Laurian
La Châtre-Langlin
La Motte-Feuilly
La Pérouille
La Vernelle
Lacs
Langé
Le Magny
Le Menoux
Le Poinçonnet
Le Pêchereau
Le Tranger
Lignac
Lignerolles
Lingé
Liniez
Lourdoueix-Saint-Michel
Luant
Lurais
Lureuil
Luzeret
Luçay-le-Libre
Luçay-le-Mâle
Lye
Lys-Saint-Georges
Maillet
Malicornay
Martizay
Mauvières
Menetou-sur-Nahon
Mers-sur-Indre
Meunet-sur-Vatan
Migné
Montchevrier
Montgivray
Montierchaume
Montipouret
Montlevicq
Mosnay
Mouhers
Mouhet
Moulins-sur-Céphons
Murs
Mâron
Mérigny
Neuillay-les-Bois
Neuvy-Pailloux
Niherne
Nuret-le-Ferron
Néons-sur-Creuse
Néret
Obterre
Orsennes
Orville
Oulches
Palluau-sur-Indre
Parnac
Parpeçay
Pellevoisin
Pommiers
Poulaines
Pouligny-Notre-Dame
Pouligny-Saint-Martin
Pouligny-Saint-Pierre
Preuilly-la-Ville
Prissac
Pruniers
Préaux
Pérassay
Reboursin
Rivarennes
Rosnay
Roussines
Rouvres-les-Bois
Ruffec
Sacierges-Saint-Martin
Saint-Aigny
Saint-Aoustrille
Saint-Août
Saint-Aubin
Saint-Chartier
Saint-Civran
Saint-Cyran-du-Jambot
Saint-Denis-de-Jouhet
Saint-Florentin
Saint-Georges-sur-Arnon
Saint-Gilles
Saint-Hilaire-sur-Benaize
Saint-Lactencin
Saint-Marcel
Saint-Martin-de-Lamps
Saint-Maur
Saint-Michel-en-Brenne
Saint-Médard
Saint-Pierre-de-Jards
Saint-Pierre-de-Lamps
Saint-Valentin
Sainte-Cécile
Sainte-Fauste
Sainte-Gemme
Sarzay
Sassierges-Saint-Germain
Saulnay
Sauzelles
Sazeray
Selles-sur-Nahon
Sembleçay
Sougé
Tendu
Thenay
Thizay
Tilly
Tournon-Saint-Martin
Tranzault
Urciers
Varennes-sur-Fouzon
Velles
Vendoeuvres
Verneuil-sur-Igneraie
Veuil
Vicq-Exemplet
Vicq-sur-Nahon
Vigoux
Vijon
Villedieu-sur-Indre
Villegongis
Villegouin
Villentrois
Villers-les-Ormes
Villiers
Vineuil
Vouillon
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Indre is a landlocked department in central France named after the river Indre. The inhabitants of the department are known as the Indriens (masculine; ) and Indriennes (feminine; ). Indre is part of the current administrative region of Centre-Val de Loire and is bordered by the departments of Indre-et-Loire to the west, Loir-et-Cher to the north, Cher to the east, Creuse, and Haute-Vienne to the south, and Vienne to the southwest. The préfecture (capital) is Châteauroux and there are three subpréfectures at Le Blanc, La Châtre and Issoudun. It had a population of 219,316 in 2019.

History

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Indre is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790, by order of the National Constituent Assembly.[1] The new departments were to be uniformly administered and approximately equal in size and population to one another. The department was created from parts of the former provinces of Berry, Orléanais, La Marche and Touraine.

Before the Roman conquest, the Celtic Bituriges tribe occupied an area that included Indre, Cher, and part of Limousin. Their capital was Avaricum (Bourges), and another important settlement was at Argenton-sur-Creuse. The area then became part of Roman Gaul after its conquest by Julius Caesar around 58 BC, and enjoyed a period of stability. Following the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, the Frankish tribes living in Gaul were united under the Merovingians, and succeeded in conquering most of the country in the sixth century AD. From this time, the Franks controlled most of Gaul and the Carolingian Empire was the last stage of their rule. The Carolingian dynasty reached its peak with the crowning of Charlemagne and after his death in 814, it began to fragment. The Carolingian territories were divided into three sections in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun, and the area that is now the department of Indre, became part of West Francia. In 869, the king of Middle Francia died without leaving a legitimate heir, and eventually part of that kingdom was added to West Francia to effectively form the medieval Kingdom of France.

A castle was built at Châteauroux in the late tenth century. In the eleventh century, the lords of Châteauroux were powerful in the region; their "principality" covered two thirds of the current Department of Indre and they had their own coinage.

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