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Saintes

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Meaning

  1. A city in Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southeastern France, the former capital of the Saintonge province.
  2. A small French Caribbean island chain, the Îles des Saintes, in the Leeward Islands, a dependency of the department of Guadeloupe.
  3. A French arrondissement named after the above, its capital.
  4. A French Catholic diocese named after the above, its see.

Etymology / origin

From French Saintes.

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