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Saintes , town (1990 pop. 27,546), Charente-Maritime dept., W France, on the Charente River. It is a market for grains, brandy, and leather; telecommunications equipment is manufactured. The town, probably the capital of the Celtic Santones and later occupied by the Romans, was the capital of old Saintonge . Louis IX defeated Henry III of England there in 1242. In Saintes are the ruins of a Roman amphitheater and triumphal arch and the two partially restored Romanesque churches of St. Europe (11th-12th cent.).

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Saintes, Poitou‐Charentes/France Mediolanum Santonum The Roman name meant ‘Middle Plain of the Santones’, a Gallic tribe. In due course, this gave way to ‘Saint’, probably in connection with St Eutropius, the town's first bishop, who is buried here.

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