Bangor | |
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 Port Goulphar | |
Location of Bangor  | |
  Bangor  Bangor | |
| Coordinates:47°18′57″N3°11′14″W / 47.3158°N 3.1872°W /47.3158; -3.1872 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Brittany |
| Department | Morbihan |
| Arrondissement | Lorient |
| Canton | Quiberon |
| Intercommunality | Belle-Île-en-Mer |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Annaïck Huchet[1] |
Area 1 | 25.54 km2 (9.86 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 1,002 |
| • Density | 39/km2 (100/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Bangorins |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 56009 /56360 |
| Elevation | 0–58 m (0–190 ft) (avg. 44 m or 144 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Bangor (French pronunciation:[bɑ̃ɡɔʁ]) is acommune in theMorbihandepartment in theBrittany region of north-westernFrance. It is one of the four communes on the island ofBelle-Île.
Bangor is one of four communes on the island ofBelle Île located on the south-west coast of the island. The island is some 14 km south of theQuiberon peninsula. Access to the commune is by the D190 road fromLe Palais in the north and the D25 fromLocmaria in the east which continues toSauzon in the north-west. There is the smallAerodrome de Belle-Île in the north of the commune which hosts theAeroclub de Belle-Ile en Mer. Apart from the village there are many hamlets in the commune:
Several offshore islands also belong to the commune as well as other unnamed islets:
The commune consists almost entirely of farmland.[3]
The commune is exposed to strong winds.
| Town | Sunshine (hours/yr) | Rain (mm/yr) | Snow (days/yr) | Storm (days/yr) | Fog (days/yr) |
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| National average | 1,973 | 770 | 14 | 22 | 40 |
| Bangor[5] | - | 712 | 1 | 6 | 26 |
| Paris | 1,661 | 637 | 12 | 18 | 10 |
| Nice | 2,724 | 767 | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| Strasbourg | 1,693 | 665 | 29 | 29 | 56 |
| Brest | 1,605 | 1,211 | 7 | 12 | 75 |
| Climate data for Belle-Ile | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 9.7 (49.5) | 9.5 (49.1) | 11.4 (52.5) | 13.5 (56.3) | 16.5 (61.7) | 19.2 (66.6) | 21.1 (70.0) | 21.4 (70.5) | 19.7 (67.5) | 16.4 (61.5) | 12.9 (55.2) | 10.5 (50.9) | 15.2 (59.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 7.9 (46.2) | 7.5 (45.5) | 9.2 (48.6) | 10.8 (51.4) | 13.7 (56.7) | 16.2 (61.2) | 18.2 (64.8) | 18.4 (65.1) | 16.8 (62.2) | 14.2 (57.6) | 10.9 (51.6) | 8.6 (47.5) | 12.7 (54.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 6.0 (42.8) | 5.4 (41.7) | 6.9 (44.4) | 8.0 (46.4) | 10.9 (51.6) | 13.2 (55.8) | 15.2 (59.4) | 15.3 (59.5) | 13.9 (57.0) | 12.0 (53.6) | 8.9 (48.0) | 6.6 (43.9) | 10.2 (50.4) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 80.7 (3.18) | 63.3 (2.49) | 56.6 (2.23) | 45.4 (1.79) | 60.8 (2.39) | 32.5 (1.28) | 38.5 (1.52) | 36.2 (1.43) | 60.8 (2.39) | 86.9 (3.42) | 66.9 (2.63) | 82.9 (3.26) | 711.5 (28.01) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1 mm) | 13.3 | 9.4 | 10.4 | 8.6 | 9.1 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 6.0 | 7.9 | 12.0 | 12.2 | 13.6 | 115.6 |
| Source:Meteorological data for Belle-Ile – 37 m altitude, from 1981 to 2010 January 2015(in French) | |||||||||||||
Places adjacent to Bangor, Morbihan | |
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It is not known if the name comes fromBangor Abbey inNorthern Ireland, one of the most famous abbeys in Western Christianity, from where it is known that monks likeColumbanus came to evangelize inArmorica in the 6th century, or from theMonastery of Bangor-Fawr, founded inWales around 545 on theMenai Strait.
TheBreton name of the commune isBangor.
The commune of Bangor has been inhabited since prehistory as evidenced by the Pierre Sainte Annemenhir.
Bangor has been the administrative centre of the island for 10 centuries. It was the name of a priory founded byBenedictine monks who came to colonize and populate the island starting in the 7th century.
Colonization consisted of dividing the island into five parishes with Bangor occupying the middle Each parish was a small area given to residual families from the island or to colonists who were asked by the monks to come to Brittany.
In the 9th century the island was devastated by theVikings and the priory was placed under the secular protection of the Counts ofCornouaille (in Armorican Brittany). In 1029 the Count ofCornouailleAlain Canhiart entrusted the island to the recently founded Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé Abbey. As it was directly under the authority of thePope, Belle-Ile benefited from immunity from being under the authority of both the bishopric of Vannes and the duchy of Brittany. The administration of the island was delegated to a provost of the abbey who had temporal power (the right of low, middle, and high justice which was performed sometimes at Belle-Ile and sometimes atQuimperlé). From 1408 the right was exercised only at Quimperlé.
The Count of Cornouaille entrusted the island to theBenedictines ofRedon Abbey who were able to take possession of it after long protests from the abbot of Quimperlé. The priory remained in the same spot as its predecessors (on the current location of the municipal campground of Bangor) and a fort was constructed atLe Palais which later became the capital of the island instead of Bangor.
Belle-Île was governed by monks until the 16th century when incessant attacks by pirates forced them to relinquish their fiefdom to the king, or rather to the regentCatherine de' Medici, who gave the land in vassalage to the Gondi family – then owners of thePays de Retz. The land, however, remained under the heavy hand of the regime until theFrench Revolution.
TheGoulphar Lighthouse on the west coast of Bangor has been active since 1836.
The semaphore of Talut was put into service in 1862.[6]
| From | To | Name |
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| 1791 | 1797 | Pierre Paul Sechant |
| 1797 | 1799 | Le Matelot |
| 1799 | 1809 | Pierre Paul Sechant |
| 1809 | 1810 | Jean Martin Labado |
| 1810 | 1818 | Jean Jacques Hippolyte Le Dru |
| 1818 | 1839 | Pierre Vincent Le Matelot |
| 1839 | 1844 | Le Dru |
| 1844 | 1852 | G. Sechant |
| 1852 | 1874 | Jean Patern Briere |
| 1874 | 1876 | Louis Marie Laleous |
| 1876 | 1896 | Mathurin L'Hermite |
| 1896 | 1900 | Pierre Marie L'Hermite |
| 1900 | 1919 | François Marie Le Bihan |
| 1919 | 1925 | Onésime Bénoni L'Hermite |
| 1925 | 1935 | Herve |
| From | To | Name |
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| 1935 | 1946 | François Le Marec |
| 1946 | 1960 | Jean Marie Le Bihan |
| 1960 | 1971 | Paul Bedex |
| 1971 | 1977 | Adolphe Olieric |
| 1977 | 1983 | Paul Meunier |
| 1983 | 1989 | Jean Yves Daniel |
| 1989 | 2001 | Lucien Maho |
| 2001 | 2014 | Pierre-Yves Desard |
| 2014 | 2026 | Annaïck Huchet |
The inhabitants of Bangor are calledBangorins in French.[8]
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The commune has many buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
[11][12][13] has one of the most powerful lights on the French coast. Built from 1826 to 1833, it was commissioned in 1835 and is a granite building 47 m high which rises to 84 m above the sea level. Its light beam flashes at intervals of 3 and 7 seconds. With the present optical system it is visible at 28Nautical miles.[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
The commune has several religious buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
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![The Aero-club[27]](/mt/?noimg=&dark=on&url=http%3a%2f%2fen.wikipedia.org%2fwiki%2fFile%3aBelle-Ile_Aero-club_Charles_Robin.jpg)
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