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The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus [1] in 1880 and became important as part of the conceptual rethinking of cultures and geography in the late 20th century.
I had emailed the HSGF (which is a group based in Ghana) and apparently, 11 percent of people speak French in Western Togoland: 19:24, 18 December 2023: 2,757 × 1,412 (1.47 MB) Kwamikagami: french is still the language of govt in Mali -- consistency w USA in English map: 01:55, 28 October 2023: 2,757 × 1,412 (1.47 MB) Salvabl
Pages in category "Maps of the history of France" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Organisation internationale de la francophonie; Frankofonia; Usage on fr.wikipedia.org Économie de la francophonie; Alliance des patronats francophones; Usage on he.wikipedia.org הארגון הבין-לאומי לפרנקופוניה; Usage on hr.wikipedia.org Frankofonija; Usage on hu.wikipedia.org Frankofónia; Usage on hy.wikipedia.org
Hand-drawn map of one side of the Valley of Vesdre by French geographers (led by the Cassini family) from 1745 to 1748. In France, the first general maps of the territory using a measuring apparatus were made by the Cassini family during the 18th century on a scale of 1:86,400 (one centimeter on the chart corresponds to approximately 864 meters on the ground).
In the 3rd century, Western Europe started to be invaded by Germanic tribes from the north and the east, and some of the groups settled in Gaul.In the history of the French language, the most important groups are the Franks in much of northern France, the Alemanni in the modern German/French border area (), the Burgundians in the Rhône (and the Saone) Valley, the Suebi in the Spanish ...
Historically, the heritage of the French people is mostly of Celtic or Gallic, Latin origin, descending from the ancient and medieval populations of Gauls or Celts from the Atlantic to the Rhone Alps, Germanic tribes that settled France from east of the Rhine and Belgium after the fall of the Roman Empire such as the Franks, Burgundians ...
The first written records for the history of France appeared in the Iron Age. What is now France made up the bulk of the region known to the Romans as Gaul . Greek writers noted the presence of three main ethno-linguistic groups in the area: the Gauls , Aquitani and Belgae .