![]() ![]() Nantes' name continued to evolve, becoming Nanetiæ and Namnetis during the fifth century and Nantes after the sixth, via syncope (suppression of the middle syllable). Like other cities in the region (including Paris), its name was replaced during the fourth century with a Gaulish one: Lutetia became Paris (city of the Parisii), and Darioritum became Vannes (city of the Veneti). The Namnete root of the city's name was introduced at the end of the Roman period, when it became known as Portus Namnetum "port of the Namnetes" and civitas Namnetum 'city of the Namnetes'. Although its origins are unclear, Condevincum seems to be related to the Gaulish word condate 'confluence'. The name was Latinised during the Gallo-Roman period as Condevincum (the most common form), Condevicnum, Condivicnum and Condivincum. Its first recorded name was by the Greek writer Ptolemy, who referred to the settlement as Κονδηούινκον ( Kondēoúinkon) and Κονδιούινκον ( Kondioúinkon) -which might be read as Κονδηούικον ( Kondēoúikon)-in his treatise, Geography. The origin of the name Namnetes is uncertain, but is thought to come from the Gaulish root * nant- 'river, stream' (from the pre-Celtic root *nanto 'valley') or from Amnites, another tribal name possibly meaning 'men of the river'. Nantes is named after a tribe of Gaul, the Namnetes, who established a settlement between the end of the second century and the beginning of the first century BC on the north bank of the Loire near its confluence with the Erdre. The river channels in the picture were diverted and filled in during the 1920s and subsequently replaced with roads. The confluence of the Erdre and the Loire (where Nantes was founded) in an 1890s photochrom. The European Commission noted the city's efforts to reduce air pollution and CO 2 emissions, its high-quality and well-managed public transport system and its biodiversity, with 3,366 hectares (8,320 acres) of green space and several protected Natura 2000 areas. ![]() Nantes has been praised for its quality of life, and it received the European Green Capital Award in 2013. The Gamma category includes cities such as Algiers, Orlando, Porto, Turin and Leipzig. It is the third-highest-ranking city in France, after Paris and Lyon. ![]() In 2020, the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranked Nantes as a Gamma world city. Deindustrialisation in the second half of the 20th century spurred the city to adopt a service economy. The French Revolution resulted in an economic decline, but Nantes developed robust industries after 1850 (chiefly in shipbuilding and food processing). During the 17th century, after the establishment of the French colonial empire, Nantes gradually became the largest port in France and was responsible for nearly half of the 18th-century French Atlantic slave trade. Although Nantes was the primary residence of the 15th-century dukes of Brittany, Rennes became the provincial capital after the 1532 union of Brittany and France. It was the seat of a bishopric at the end of the Roman era before it was conquered by the Bretons in 851. Nantes was identified during classical antiquity as a port on the Loire. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former duchy and province, and its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial. It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region, one of 18 regions of France. With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2018). ![]() Nantes ( / n ɒ̃ t/, US also / n ɑː n t( s)/, French: ( listen) Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt Breton: Naoned ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ![]()
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