Vendée department

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The Vendée department is an administrative region on France’s Atlantic coast, historically part of Poitou and known for its rural landscapes, coastline, and role in the counter-revolutionary uprisings of the French Revolution.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Vendée department canonical 34
department of Vendée 3

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf French department
administrativeCenter La Roche-sur-Yon
borders Atlantic Ocean
Charente-Maritime
Deux-Sèvres
Loire-Atlantique
Maine-et-Loire
country France
createdAsDepartment French Revolution
dateCreated 1790
departmentNumber 85
economicActivity agriculture
fishing
tourism
hasAttraction Puy du Fou historical theme park
hasCoastalResort La Tranche-sur-Mer
Les Sables-d’Olonne
Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie
Saint-Jean-de-Monts
hasIsland Île de Noirmoutier
Île d’Yeu
hasLandscape bocage hedgerow fields
marais poitevin marshes
hasMajorTown Challans
Fontenay-le-Comte
La Roche-sur-Yon
Les Sables-d’Olonne
Luçon
historicalDialect Poitevin-Saintongeais
historicalEvent War in the Vendée
linked to: Vendée uprising
historicalRegion Poitou
knownFor Atlantic coastline
beach tourism
bocage countryside
counter-revolutionary uprisings during the French Revolution
marshlands
rural landscapes
language French
locatedIn Pays de la Loire region
linked to: Pays de la Loire
locatedOn Atlantic coast of France
namedAfter Vendée River
partOf French Revolution internal conflicts
Metropolitan France
prefecture La Roche-sur-Yon
regionType predominantly rural
subprefecture Fontenay-le-Comte
Les Sables-d’Olonne
timeZone Central European Time
timeZoneDST Central European Summer Time

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Poitou modernTerritoryIncludes Vendée department
Île d’Yeu locatedIn Vendée department
Port-Joinville administrativeDivision department of Vendée
linked to: Vendée department
Mouilleron-en-Pareds locatedIn Vendée department
Mouilleron-en-Pareds partOf Vendée department
La Roche-sur-Yon locatedIn Vendée department
La Roche-sur-Yon isPrefectureOf Vendée department
Sèvre Nantaise flowsThrough Vendée department
Port-Joinville harbor locatedIn Vendée department
Saint-Sauveur village locatedIn Vendée department
Diocese of Luçon territoryCorrespondsRoughlyTo department of Vendée
linked to: Vendée department
Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie locatedIn Vendée department
Challans locatedIn Vendée department
Montaigu-Vendée locatedIn Vendée department
Montaigu-Vendée partOf Vendée department
Noirmoutier-en-l’Île locatedIn Vendée department
Marais Poitevin locatedIn Vendée department
Vendée Globe hostRegion Vendée department
subject linked to: Vendée Globe yacht race
Les Sables-d’Olonne locatedIn Vendée department
Les Herbiers locatedIn Vendée department
Boulogne, Vendée, France partOf Vendée department
Vendée River flowsThrough Vendée department
Vendée River givesNameTo Vendée department
Vendée River namedAfter Vendée department
Saint-Jean-de-Monts locatedIn Vendée department
Fontenay-le-Comte locatedIn Vendée department
Fontenay-le-Comte isSubprefectureOf Vendée department
Benet locatedIn Vendée department
Yon locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Vendée department
Yon flowsThrough Vendée department
arrondissement of La Roche-sur-Yon partOf Vendée department
Vendée prefecture building locatedIn Vendée department
Mortagne-sur-Sèvre locatedIn Vendée department
Tiffauges locatedIn Vendée department
Tiffauges countrySubdivision department of Vendée
linked to: Vendée department