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Communauté d'agglomération du Centre de la Martinique is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Fort-de-France. It is located in Martinique, an overseas department and region of France. It was created in January 2001. [1] Its area is 171.0 km 2. Its population was 154,706 in 2018, of which 78,126 ...
Armand Nicolas: Martinican historian. He is the author of "Histoire de la Martinique", "La révolution antiesclavagiste de mai 1848 à La Martinique", and "L'Insurrection du Sud à la Martinique, septembre 1870". [177] Gaël Octavia, writer, playwright [178] Xavier Orville: novelist, who won the Frantz Fanon prize in 1993.
An integral part of the French Republic, [1] Martinique is located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It has a land area of 1,128 km 2 (436 sq mi) and a population of 376,480 inhabitants as of January 2016. One of the Windward Islands, it is directly north of Saint Lucia, northwest of Barbados and south of ...
Les Trois-Îlets (French pronunciation: [le tʁwɑz‿ilɛ], literally The Three Islets; Martinican Creole: Twazilé) is a town and commune in the French overseas department and region of Martinique. It was the place of baptism and possibly the birthplace of Joséphine (1763–1814), who married Napoleon Bonaparte and became Empress of the French.
The area is historically notable for the number of well-preserved colonial era shipwrecks and biologically important for its unusually high diversity of cetacean species. [50] 6294 Pre-Hispanic Rock Art in the Dominican Republic Hato Mayor, La Altagracia, Pedernales and San Cristóbal Provinces, Dominican Republic: 2018 i, iii (cultural)
The following is a list of the 34 communes of the Martinique overseas department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Communauté d'agglomération du Centre de la Martinique; Communauté d'agglomération de l'Espace Sud de la Martinique; Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Nord Martinique
The îlets de la Perle, the Citadelle and the coastal waters in north-west Martinique form a regional nature reserve called "Réserve marine du prêcheur - Albert Falco". [6] On Mount Pelée's northern slopes, 2,301 ha (8.88 sq mi) of forest were classified as an integral biological reserve in 28 April 2007, and are managed by the National ...
Saint John, a large city in New Brunswick and the oldest incorporated in Canada, sits at the mouth of the Saint John River. It is steeped with history, from the Irish immigration to a great fire in the 1877. The port city has numerous Victorian houses and 18th- and 19th-century architecture in the uptown area.