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Ille et Vilaine(illevilaine,ille vilaine)Ille-et-Vilaine is a département of France , located in Brittany (Bretagne in French ), one of the 22 regions of France .
HistoryThe department was created during the French Revolution , on March 4 , 1790 under the provisions of an Actdated December 22 , 1789 , being formedfrom a subdivision of the province of Brittany . Background article: History of Ille-et-Vilaine GeographyThe Department of Ille-et-Vilaine is a part of the region of Brittany . Itborders the departements of Manche , of Mayenne , of Maine-et-Loire , of Loire-Atlantique , of Morbihan and Côtes-d'Armor , and has a coastline along the EnglishChannel . Major rivers running through it are the Ille ,the Vilaine , the Rance and the Couesnon . Background article: Ille-et-Vilaine geography ClimateBackground article: Climate of Ille-et-Vilaine EconomyBackground article: Economy of Ille-et-Vilaine DemographyThere seems to be no special name for the inhabitants of Ille-et-Vilaine. The population has grown over the last few decades and was estimated at 903,400 in January 2003. Background article : Demography of Ille-et-Vilaine CultureLanguage French is the only official language of the French Republic(Article 2 of the French Constitution), and spoken by a very large population of this department as in other metropolitan Frenchdepartments. Nevertheless, moves are afoot to change the French Constitution to include official recognition for the country's native minority languages (which include Breton , Catalan , and Occitan ). Gallo is a historic minority language spoken in Eastern Brittany, inthe romance family of langues d'Oïl , of which French is an offshoot. However, as Rennes is the capital of the Region of Bretagnewhere Breton is an important minority language (notably in Western Brittany and in the rural south East of this departement),Gallo and Breton are both studied in Universities in Rennes. With regard to Breton, the weighted statistics in the Etude de l'histoire familiale (published by INSEE in 1999)state that there are over 8,500 Breton-speaking people in the Departement. To these one should add children studying in bilingualschools (some 680 students at the beginning of the 2003 school year) and the students of Breton at public secondary schools (over200 in 2002/2003). Recent immigration at end of last century has seen the rise of other foreign minority languages. Foreign language studies are compulsory at secondary school. English is the most commonly studied, but also Europeanlanguages, notably German, Spanish and Italian, are also studied. Background article: Culture of Ille-et-Vilaine TourismBackground article: Tourism of Ille-et-Vilaine PoliticsBackground article: Politics of Ille-et-Vilaine
AdministrationBackground article: Administration of Ille-et-Vilaine
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