There are 3 arrondissements in the Loir-et-Cher department. The French departments, and in other countries, are divided into "arrondissements", which may be translated into English as districts (in some cases, as boroughs). The capital of an arrondissement is called a subprefecture.
If the prefecture (capital) of the department is in an arrondissement, that prefecture is the capital of the arrondissement, acting both as a prefecture and as a subprefecture.
Arrondissements are further divided into communes.
The arrondissements of Loir-et-Cher are:
Since its creation, the Loir-et-Cher department has had few changes:
Fläsch
Fläsch is a municipality of the district Landquart in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Painter Anna Barbara Bansi was a native of the town.
Kuzakai Station
Dobra, Bolesławiec County
Dobra is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bolesławiec in Bolesławiec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwestern Poland. It is approximately west of Bolesławiec, and west of the regional capital Wrocław.
Geishouse
Geishouse is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of east France.
Dejan Miladinović
Dejan Miladinović, (; 2 December 1948 – 3 August 2017) was a Serbian opera director. He was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia. Miladinović has served as Principal Stage Director and two times as Artistic Director of the National Opera of Novi Sad. He has also served as Director and Artistic Councilor for "Grand Opera Projects" with Convention Centre "Sava" in Belgrade.
Miladinović died in Belgrade on 3 August 2017 at the age of 68.
Patsy Ticer
Patricia Smith "Patsy" Ticer (January 6, 1935 – August 7, 2017) was an American politician. She was born in Alexandria, Virginia. She was a member of the Democratic Party. Ticer served on the City Council of Alexandria, Virginia in the 1980s. She then served as Mayor of Alexandria from 1991 to 1996. Ticer served in the Senate of Virginia from 1996 until her retirement in 2011.
Ticer died in a hospital in Alexandria, Virginia from complications from a fall on August 7, 2017 at the age of 82.
Gonzague Saint Bris
Gonzague Saint Bris (16 January 1948 – 8 August 2017) was a French award-winning novelist, biographer and journalist. He won the 2002 Prix Interallié for "Les Vieillards de Brighton". He was the founder of La Forêt des livres, an annual book festival, and the Cabourg Film Festival. He was born in Loches, Indre-et-Loire.
Saint Bris was killed in a car crash on 8 August 2017 in Saint-Hymer, Calvados at the age of 69.
Cluster analysis
Clustering or cluster analysis is a type of data analysis. The analyst groups objects so that objects in the same group (called a cluster) are more similar to each other than to objects in other groups (clusters) in some way. This is a common task in data mining.
Dick MacPherson
Richard Francis "Dick" MacPherson (November 4, 1930 – August 8, 2017) was an American football coach.
He was born in Old Town, Maine. He served as the head coach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1971 to 1977 and at Syracuse University from 1981 to 1990.
He had a career college football record of 111–73–5. MacPherson was the head coach of the National Football League's New England Patriots from 1991 to 1992, tallying a mark of 8–24. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2009.
MacPherson also served as an assistant coach with the Denver Broncos and the Cleveland Browns.
MacPherson died at a hospital in Syracuse, New York on August 8 2017 at the age of 86.
Mercedes-Benz TN
The Mercedes-Benz TN (Transporter Ne, Internally called T1) were vans and minibuses built by Mercedes-Benz from 1977 to 1995. it was available as a box van, a flat bed light truck or a minibus.
In 1986 Bajaj Tempo, (now Force Motors) and Mercedes Benz (Daimler Benz) built the Force Motors Traveller and Tempo Traveller for Indian countries.
Arrondissement of Blois
The arrondissement of Blois is an arrondissement of France, in the Loir-et-Cher department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Blois.
When the Loir-et-Cher department was created on 1800, the "arrondissement" of Blois was part of that original department.
The "arrondissement" of Blois is a central "arrondissement" in the Loir-et-Cher department. It is the second largest "arrondissement" of the department, , but it is the one with more people living in it, with 173,125 inhabitants.
It is bordered to the north by the Eure-et-Loir department, to the northeast by the Loiret department, to the east and south by the "arrondissement" of Romorantin-Lanthenay, to the west by the Indre-et-Loire department and to the northwest by the "arrondissement" of Vendôme.
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the "arrondissements" so they could have "communes" that belong to different "arrondissements".
The cantons in the arrondissement of Blois are:
The "arrondissement" of Blois has 94 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are:
Annie Up
Annie Up is the second studio album by Pistol Annies. The album was released on May 7, 2013 through .
Arrondissement of Vendôme
The arrondissement of Vendôme is an arrondissement of France, in the Loir-et-Cher department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Vendôme.
When the Loir-et-Cher department was created on 1800, the "arrondissement" of Vendôme was part of that original department.
The "arrondissement" of Vendôme is the most northern "arrondissement" in the Loir-et-Cher department. It is the smallest "arrondissement" of the department, , and the one with fewest people living in it, with 70,205 inhabitants.
It is bordered to the north by the Eure-et-Loir department, to the east by the "arrondissement" of Blois, to the south by the Indre-et-Loire department and to the west by the Sarthe department.
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the "arrondissements" so they could have "communes" that belong to different "arrondissements".
The cantons in the arrondissement of Vendôme are:
The "arrondissement" of Vendôme has 105 "communes"; they are (with their INSEE codes)ː
The "communes" with more inhabitants in the "arrondissement" are:
Eugenio Martínez
Eugenio Rolando Martínez (alias Musculito, July 8, 1922 – January 30, 2021) was an American real estate agent who was a member of the anti-Castro movement in the early 1960s, and later was one of the five men recruited by G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt in 1972 for the Memorial Day weekend Watergate burglary at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington, D.C. After completing his prison term, Martinez was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.
Martínez died on January 30, 2021 in Minneola, Florida at the age of 98.
Alexander Butterfield
Alexander Porter Butterfield (born April 6, 1926) is a U.S. military officer, public servant, and businessman. He served as the deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973.
Butterfield revealed the existence of the White House taping system on July 13, 1973, during the Watergate scandal investigation, but had no involvement in the scandal. From 1973 to 1975, he served as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Arrondissement of Romorantin-Lanthenay
The arrondissement of Romorantin-Lanthenay is an arrondissement of France, in the Loir-et-Cher department of the Centre-Val de Loire region. Its capital is the city of Romorantin-Lanthenay.
When the Loir-et-Cher department was created on 1800, the "arrondissement" of Romorantin was part of that original department. In 1961, Romorantin was merged with Lanthenay and the name, of the "commune" and of the "arrondissement", was changed to Romorantin-Lanthenay.