Buzançais
French commune in Indre, Centre-Val de Loire
Buzançais (French pronunciation: [byzɑ̃sɛ] ) is a commune and town in the French department of Indre, administrative region of Centre-Val de Loire.
It is situated 22 km (14 mi) northwest of Châteauroux, the nearest large city, and is near the Brenne regional nature preserve located in the historical province of Berry. The Indre river flows through the commune.
Toponymy
Buzancei in Berrichon dialect (langue d'oïl) and Latin: Busentiacum or Busenciacum.
History
Evidence of human settlement dates back to the Bronze Age and the La Tène period (at the latest around the fifth century BC). The site was eventually abandoned, with no Roman period structures having been discovered in the area, indicating a possible displacement of the original settlers.
During antiquity, human activity continued around the Saint-Étienne and Herbigny areas of the town, where parishes were maintained until the end of the modern period.
The Saint-Honoré church, which was destroyed in 1944, left remnants of an early medieval burial. The excavation, which was carried out by the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research, determined that the body was of a man aged 30 to 60 years, who had a perimortem trauma in the skull and died between 776 and 971 AD.
Towards the end of the tenth-century AD, the medieval archaeological structures and their carbon layers indicate a strong level of occupation, although no specific cause of the carbon coating has been determined. During the High Middle Ages (c.
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