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Saint-Marcan

commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ548555 ↗
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Saint-Marcan (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ maʁkɑ̃]; Gallo: Saent-Marqaen, Breton: Sant-Marc'han) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

Population

Inhabitants of Saint-Marcan are called marcanais in French.

Sights

Menhir

Medieval Christian Cross

Chappe Tower

See also

Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

Saint Marcin in Ireland

In the heart of the Rosclave Channel in west County Mayo in the Republic of Ireland were the visible the remains of St. Marcin's Castle, Church, outdoor altar and a burial ground. However, it appears little remains of these features other than on historical maps. *[1]

References

External links

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

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Saint-Marcan” is commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, France. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Saint-Marcan, commune and Ille-et-Vilaine, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 110-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Saint-Marcan, commune and Ille-et-Vilaine is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q548555. Authority coordinates are 48.588, -1.633. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Marcan” 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.