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Trémargat

commune in Côtes-d'Armor, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ728175 ↗
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Trémargat (French pronunciation: [tʁemaʁɡat]; Breton: Tremargad) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.

Population

People from Trémargat are called trémargatois in French and tremargadiz in Breton.

The commune's unusual demographics lend it to unusual political leanings; in the 2012 presidential election, Trémargat was one of the few communes where Eva Joly of Europe Ecology – The Greens secured a plurality of the vote, with 29.03% support, followed closely by Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the Left Front at 27.42%.

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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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Trémargat” as commune in Côtes-d'Armor, France. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Trémargat, commune and Côtes-d'Armor can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as commune in Côtes-d'Armor, France. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q728175. Authority coordinates are 48.332, -3.268. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Trémargat” 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.