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Saint-Guen

former commune in Côtes-d'Armor, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ1013973 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saint-Guen (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ɡɥɛ̃]; Breton: Sant-Wenn) is a former commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Guerlédan.

Population

Inhabitants of Saint-Guen are called saint-guennois in French.

See also

Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department

References

External links

Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture.

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“Saint-Guen” enters the record as former commune in Côtes-d'Armor, France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Saint-Guen, former and commune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1013973. Authority coordinates are 48.217, -2.937. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Guen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.