Poitou
Meanings
name
- A geographic region and former province of France, whose capital was Poitiers; now split between the administrative regions of Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Pays de la Loire.
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Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French Poitou, ultimately from Latin Pictāvus, after the Pictones, the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the region.
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