Examples of using Cotentin in English and their translations into Romanian
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Cotentin Henry.
Although no longer formally the Count of Cotentin, Henry continued to control the west of Normandy.
Cotentin was almost an island at one time.
The social scene was described in the novels of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly(himself from the Cotentin).
The Cotentin Pass.
During World War II,part of the 1944 Battle of Normandy was fought in the Cotentin.
The Cotentin Peninsula.
By 27 July, most organized resistance had been overcome, and VII andVIII Corps were advancing rapidly, isolating the Cotentin peninsula.
The Cotentin Peninsula.
The first action took place near Barfleur;later actions were at Cherbourg and Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue in the Cotentin peninsula, Normandy, France.
The Cotentin became part of Normandy in the early tenth century.
In 1088 Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy,enfeoffed the Cotentin to his brother Henry, who later became king of England.
Welcome on the website of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Cherbourg,an Evangelical Protestant Church located in the Cotentin Peninsula, in Normandy.
The west coast of the Cotentin known as Côte des Îles("Islands Coast") faces the Channel Islands.
In 1082 King William andQueen Matilda gave to the abbey of the Holy Trinity in Caen the town of Le Homme in the Cotentin with a provision to the Countess of Albamarla(Aumale), his sister, for a life tenancy.
Henry, as count of the Cotentin, established his first power base there and in the adjoining Avranchin, which lay to the south, beyond the River Thar.[8].
The Dukes of Brittany suffered continuing Norse invasions andNorman raids, and Brittany lost the Cotentin Peninsula(and Avranchin nearby) after only 70 years of political domination.
The Cotentin Peninsula(\kō-ˌtäⁿ-ˈtaⁿ\), also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy that is part of the coast of France.
They descended from Hiallt,a Norseman who settled in the Cotentin Peninsula and founded the village of Hialtus Villa( Hauteville) from which the family takes its name.
The Cotentin Peninsula(French pronunciation:[kotɑ̃tɛ̃]), also known as the Cherbourg Peninsula, is a peninsula in Normandy that forms part of the northwest coast of France.
In the westernpart of the lodgement, US troops were to occupy the Cotentin Peninsula, especially Cherbourg, which would provide the Allies with a deep water harbour.
The Cotentin peninsula is part of the Armorican Massif[1](with the exception of the Plain lying in the Paris Basin) and lies between the estuary of the Vire river and Mont Saint-Michel Bay.
The base of the peninsula, called in Latin the pagus Constantinus, joined together with the pagus Coriovallensiscentred upon Cherbourg to the north, subsequently became known as the Cotentin.
As the result of his conquests, the Cotentin Peninsula was included theoretically in the territory of the Duchy of Brittany, after the Treaty of Compiègne(867) with the king of the Franks.
Only a small strip of land in the heath of Lessay connected the peninsula with the mainland.[3] Thanks to the so-called portes à flot(fr), which close at flood and open at ebb[4] and which were built in the west coast andin the Baie des Veys, on the east coast, the Cotentin has become a peninsula.
