Pays de Léon

The Pays de Léon ( Breton Bro Leon ) is the extreme north-west of Brittany within the Finistère department and one of the provinces of the Ancien Régime . The area is 2,019 km² and has (1999) 405,082 inhabitants. Its religious center in the Middle Ages was Saint-Pol-de-Léon as the seat of the bishops of Léon , its political Lesneven . The bishopric was moved to Quimper and Brest became the economic center .

Léon borders Trégor to the east (the border is the Morlaix river ) and Cornouaille to the south (the border is at Landerneau ). Le Conquet , Landerneau and Morlaix were the most important ports

See also

• List of the Bishops of Léon (until 1802),
• List of the bishops of Cornouaille (Quimper and Léon) (from 1802)
• Hervé de Portzmoguer

literature

• P. Arzel: Les goémoniers du Léon. In: ArMen. n ° 7, 1987.
• F. de Beaulieu: Jardins exotiques du Léon. In: ArMen. n ° 94, 1998.
• F. Elégoët: Nous ne savions que le breton et il fallait parler français: mémoire d'un paysan du Léon. La Baule, 1978, OCLC 1070612970 .
• N. Hamon: Le Minihy de Léon, Chronique géographique des Pays celtes. 1942, pp. 5-20.
• M. de Mauny: Le pays de Léon. Bro Leon. Son histoire, ses monuments. 2nd Edition. Ed. régionale de l'Ouest, Mayenne 1993, ISBN 2-85554-060-7 .
• P. Mellouet: Les paysans léonards au travail, Evolution des techniques de culture de plein champ au XXe siècle. Blaz an douar, 2002, ISBN 2-910981-74-6 .
• F. Moal: Cléder et le Léon des origines à 1789. Coop Breizh, Spézet 1987, ISBN 2-85257-001-7 .
• V. page: Ar marh Reiz: e bro-Leon Gaulchall. Brest 1985, ISBN 2-900828-02-3 .
• J.-F. Simon: Tiez. Le paysan breton et sa maison / Le Léon. Editions de l'Estran, 1982, OCLC 490600019 .
• M. Tanguy: Quand les champs avaient un nom: le Léon rural (1920–1950). Spézet 1991, OCLC 36770825 .