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The commune of Saint-Pierre is made up of the island of Saint-Pierre proper and several nearby smaller islands, such as L'Île-aux-Marins.Although containing nearly 90% of the inhabitants of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, the commune of Saint-Pierre is considerably smaller in terms of area than the commune of Miquelon-Langlade, which lies to its northwest on Miquelon Island.
The exact date of the abbey's foundation is unknown, and research is complicated by the unreliability of the earliest documents. In the 6th century, the "testament" of the bishop of Lyon Ennemond relates that Aldebert, governor of Lugdunum under the reign of Septimius Severus, having converted to Christianity, endowed the "monastery of the Ladies of Saint-Pierre" with land in 208. [1]
It developed in the early 1980s with the housing projects of the Société immobilière du Cameroun (SIC) and is now the prime area for the small but increasing middle and upper classes of the city. New Bell is an historical neighbourhood of the city. It was founded in the early 20th century with the expropriation by the Germans of the natives ...
Banque Camerounaise pour le Financement International (BGFIBank), part of BGFIBank Group; Banque Internationale du Cameroun pour l'Épargne et le Crédit (BICEC), part of BCP Group; Citibank Cameroun, part of Citigroup; Commercial Bank Cameroon (CBC) Crédit Communautaire d’Afrique – Bank (CCA-BANK) Ecobank Cameroun, part of Ecobank Group
The Hotel St. Pierre is a collection of Creole cottages, many dating from the early 1780s, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. Its business address is 911 Burgundy Street. The hotel property includes the Gabriel Peyroux House , erected in 1780 for Gabriel Peyroux de la Roche, a native of France .
Cathédrale Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul in Douala. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Douala (Latin: Archidioecesis Dualaensis) is the Metropolitan See for the ecclesiastical province of Douala in Cameroon.
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The tombolo connecting Miquelon and Le Cap is 3 km (1.9 mi) long and in places less than 100 m (330 ft) wide. The island of Saint Pierre is across a treacherous and foggy 6 km (3.7 mi) strait that fishermen named "The Mouth of Hell" (French: La Gueule de L'Enfer) that has been the site of more than 600 shipwrecks. [3] [9]