Definition of poitou Poitou

Poi•tou

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What does poitou mean?

Noun
poitou - a low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay
		Poitou-Charentes, Poitou

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poitou
A former province of Western France, now mainly comprised in the departments of Deux Sèvres, Vendée, and Vienne. It became an English possession in 1152. In 1204, Philip Augustus regained it by conquest from England, and in 1295 it was formally ceded to France. It again reverted to England in 1360 by the peace of Bretigny, but was retaken by Charles V., and incorporated with the French crown.