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Trégor (French pronunciation:[tʁeɡɔʁ];Breton:Treger,[ˈtreːɡər]), officially theLand of Trégor (French:pays du Trégor; Breton:Bro-Dreger,[broˈdreːɡər]) is one of the nine traditional provinces ofBrittany, in its northwestern area. It comprises the western part of theCôtes-d'Armor and a small part of the northeast ofFinistère, as far as the riverMorlaix. Its capital isTréguier, the French translation of the Breton wordLandreger (fromlann, holy place, andDreger,Treger with consonitic mutation, meaning Tregor).
Since the Morlaix was the boundary between theBishopric of Léon and theBishopric of Tréguier, the town was divided between the two.
On 27 January 1790, after theFrench Revolution, the Breton deputies rejected the request by the residents of Morlaix to be integrated in the same department asSaint-Brieuc. They instead established the northern boundary of the department at theDouron. So was constituted by division of the diocese of Tréguier, a Trégor which is called Finisterrian or Morlaisian. Traditionally, Tregorrois Breton is spoken here, which shows some dialectal differences.
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