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Place details
- Locality
- Bassac
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Population
- 479
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Department
- Charente
- Arrondissement
- Cognac
- Canton
- Jarnac
- Intercommunality
- CA Grand Cognac
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Nicole Roy
- Area
- 7.62 km (2.94 sq mi)
- Density
- 69.4/km (180/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 16032 /16120
- Elevation
- 12–38 m (39–125 ft) , (avg. 20 m or 66 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Bassac ( French pronunciation: [basak]) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. It has Bassac Abbey, founded more than 1000 years ago (in the year 1002), partially restored in the late 20th century, and sold in 2015 to a trust ("société civile immobilièree") for renovation.
Population
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bassac” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.