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Angoumois

Angoumois was a county and province of France. Its capital was Angoulême, and it nearly corresponded to the Charente Department. __NOTOC__

Usage examples of "angoumois".

They were willing to give him the princess in marriage, to pay him eight hundred thousand crowns, to resign the entire sovereignty of Guienne, and to annex to that province the country of Perigord, Rovergue Xaintonge, the Angoumois, and other territories.

At nineteen, therefore, Henry found himself the husband of a wife about twenty-seven years of age, and the lord, besides his own hereditary lands and his Norman duchy, of Poitou, Saintonge, Perigord, Limousin, Angoumois, and Gascony, with claims of suzerainty over Auvergne and Toulouse.

There were hostile forces in Angoumois, La Marche, Saintonge, and the Limousin, which had to be finally destroyed.

The main ones in Australia are the Indian meal moth, tropical warehouse moth, Mediterranean flour moth and the angoumois grain moth.