Talk:Loire

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In general, we prefer to use the most common correct English usage for an article title. In the case of the Loire, both forms are correct, but googling shows about 7,000 for "Loire River" vs 3,000 for "River Loire". It's not a big deal, but wikipedia articles named in the most common way will be more likely to be seen by search engines, which is good for wikipedia visibility. Stan 18:57 May 10, 2003 (UTC) the picture is of the river erme not the loire so dont get confused!!!

I haven't read the source cited, but the assertion that "Modern man evolved in the Loire valley around 30,000 BC and began clearing forests along the river edges and cultivating the lands andThis article is within the scope of WikiProject France, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of France on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. B  This article has been rated as B-Class on the project's quality scale. High  This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale. rearing livestock" seems suspect to me. I was under the impression that the current consensus was that modern humans originated in east africa, not the Loire valley. Also, agriculture is not known to have been practiced anwhere in 30,000 BCE, let alone ice-age France. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.107.0.81 (talk) 18:47, 4 May 2011 (UTC)


 * The word "evolve" was being used loosely, I changed it to "inhabited", which is what I think the author intended. Homo sapien sapiens did not evolve in the Loire Valley 30,000 year ago, obviously. Green Cardamom (talk) 20:18, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Lonely Planet as primary source
The Lonely Planet travel guides reliability are marginal. Academic sources would be better. I just mention it since it seems to be one of the primary sources used in the article. I don't think it would pass Good Article, or Featured. Green Cardamom (talk) 20:14, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

River Loire
I have been to this particular river and think all of the infomation descriptedly given in the article is very detailed and correct LOL — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.182.89.153 (talk) 15:24, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

River loire
The Loire (French pronunciation: [lwaʁ]; Occitan: Léger; Breton: Liger) is the longest river in France.[3] With a length of 1,012 kilometres (629 mi), it drains an area of 117,054 km2 (45,195 sq mi), which represents more than a fifth of France's land area.[1] It is the 170th longest river in the world. It rises in the Cévennes in the département of Ardèche at 1,350 m (4,430 ft) near Mont Gerbier de Jonc, and flows for over 1,000 km (620 mi) north through Nevers to Orléans, then west through Tours and Nantes until it reaches the Bay of Biscay at St Nazaire. Its main tributaries include the Maine, Nièvre and the Erdre rivers on its right bank, and the Allier, Cher, Indre, Vienne, and the Sèvre Nantaise rivers from the left bank. The Loire gives its name to six départements: Loire, Haute-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, and Saône-et-Loire. The central part of the Loire Valley was added to the World Heritage Sites list of UNESCO on December 2, 2000. The banks are characterized by vineyards and chateaux in the Loire Valley.

Historicity of the Loire River valley begins with the earliest Middle Palaeolithic period 40-90 ka (thousand years ago), followed by the modern humans (30 ka), succeeded by the Neolithic period (6,000 to 4,500 BC) of the Stone Age and the Gauls, the inhabitants in the Loire during the Iron Age, in the period between 1500 and 500 BC. Gauls made it a major naval trading route by 600 BC establishing trade with the Greeks on the Mediterranean coast. Gallic rule ended in the valley in 56 BC with Julius Caesar winning over this territory. Christianity made entry into this valley from 3rd century AD with many saints converting the pagans. It was the time when the wineries also came to be established in the valley.

The Loire Valley has been called the "Garden of France" and is studded with over a thousand chateaux, each with distinct architectural embellishments covering a wide range of variations, from the early medieval to the late Renaissance periods. They were originally created as feudal strongholds, over centuries past, in the strategic divide between southern and northern France; now many are owned by private individuals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.182.89.153 (talk) 15:25, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Proposed renaming
See Talk:Loire, and participate there as you see fit.--A bit iffy (talk) 08:28, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

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 * Château de Montsoreau Val de Loire.jpg