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Place details
- Locality
- Moncontour
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Population
- 1,045
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Department
- Vienne
- Arrondissement
- Châtellerault
- Canton
- Loudun
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Édouard Renaud
- Area
- 41.06 km (15.85 sq mi)
- Density
- 23.8/km (61.6/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 86161 /86330
- Elevation
- 51–115 m (167–377 ft) , (avg. 70 m or 230 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Moncontour
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Vienne
- Population
- 976
- Area
- 41.06
- Elevation
- 68
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- canton of Moncontour
- Shares border with
- Plaine-et-Vallées
- Official website
- www.moncontour-de-poitou.fr
- Image
- Moncontour.JPG
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- Commons category
- Moncontour (Vienne)
- postal code
- 86330
- different from
- Moncontour
- associated electoral district
- canton of Loudun
- male population
- 492
- female population
- 494
- native label
- Moncontour
- inception
- 1973-01-01
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-5-49-98-91-29
- significant person
- Michelle Perrot
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Moncontour ( French pronunciation: [mɔ̃kɔ̃tuʁ]) is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.
It was the site of the Battle of Moncontour in 1569.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moncontour” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.