Gâvres
Gâvres is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. French Navy Minister Hyde de Neuville chose this place as a military testing area in 1829 for heavy marine ordnance.
- Type: Village with 680 residents
- Description: commune in Morbihan, France
- Also known as: “Gavr” and “Gâvre”
- Postal code: 56680
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dolmen de Goëren and Église Saint-Gildas de Gâvres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port-Louis and Larmor-Plage.
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Gâvres
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Gâvres, Arrondissement of Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.6941° or 47° 41′ 39″ north
Longitude
-3.35401° or 3° 21′ 14″ west
Population
680
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Open location code
8CVRMJVW+J9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gâvres” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gâvres”
- Aragonese: “Gavr”
- Aragonese: “Gâvres”
- Arpitan: “Gâvres”
- Asturian: “Gâvres”
- Bambara: “Gâvres”
- Basque: “Gâvres”
- Bavarian: “Gâvres”
- Breton: “Ar C’havr”
- Breton: “Gavr”
- Cajun French: “Gâvres”
- Catalan: “Gavr”
- Catalan: “Gâvres”
- Cebuano: “Gâvres (lungsod)”
- Cebuano: “Gâvres”
- Chechen: “ГавгӀ (МогӀбиан)”
- Chechen: “ГавгӀ”
- Chinese: “Gâvres”
- Chinese: “加夫尔”
- Chinese: “加夫雷”
- Corsican: “Gâvres”
- Croatian: “Gavr”
- Croatian: “Gâvres”
- Czech: “Gavr”
- Czech: “Gâvres”
- Danish: “Gâvres”
- Dutch: “Gavr”
- Dutch: “Gâvres”
- Esperanto: “Gavr”
- Esperanto: “Gâvres”
- Estonian: “Gavr”
- Estonian: “Gâvres”
- Faroese: “Gâvres”
- Finnish: “Gâvres”
- French: “Gavr”
- French: “Gavres”
- French: “Gâvres”
- Friulian: “Gâvres”
- Galician: “Gâvres”
- German: “Gavr”
- German: “Gâvres”
- Hungarian: “Gâvres”
- Icelandic: “Gâvres”
- Ido: “Gâvres”
- Indonesian: “Gâvres”
- Interlingua: “Gâvres”
- Interlingue: “Gâvres”
- Irish: “Gâvres”
- Italian: “Gavr”
- Italian: “Gâvres”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Gâvres”
- Japanese: “ガヴル”
- Kabyle: “Gâvres”
- Kalaallisut: “Gâvres”
- Kazakh: “Гавр”
- Kongo: “Gâvres”
- Kurdish: “Gâvres”
- Ladin: “Gâvres”
- Latin: “Gâvres”
- Latvian: “Gavr”
- Latvian: “Gâvres”
- Ligurian: “Gâvres”
- Limburgan: “Gâvres”
- Lithuanian: “Gavr”
- Lithuanian: “Gâvres”
- Low German: “Gavr”
- Low German: “Gâvres”
- Luxembourgish: “Gâvres”
- Mainfränkisch: “Gâvres”
- Malagasy: “Gâvres”
- Malay: “Gâvres”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gâvres”
- Minangkabau: “Gâvres”
- Narom: “Gâvres”
- Neapolitan: “Gâvres”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gâvres”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gâvres”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gavr”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gâvres”
- Papiamento: “Gâvres”
- Picard: “Gâvres”
- Piemontese: “Gâvres”
- Polish: “Gavr”
- Polish: “Gâvres”
- Portuguese: “Gavr”
- Portuguese: “Gâvres”
- Prussian: “Gâvres”
- Romagnol: “Gâvres”
- Romanian: “Gâvres”
- Romansh: “Gâvres”
- Sardinian: “Gâvres”
- Scots: “Gâvres”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gâvres”
- Serbian: “Gâvres”
- Serbian: “Гавр”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gâvres”
- Sicilian: “Gâvres”
- Slovak: “Gâvres”
- Spanish: “Gavr”
- Spanish: “Gavres”
- Spanish: “Gâvres”
- Swahili: “Gâvres”
- Swedish: “Gâvres”
- Swiss German: “Gavr”
- Swiss German: “Gâvres”
- Tatar: “Гавр”
- Tosk Albanian: “Gâvres”
- Turkish: “Gâvres”
- Ukrainian: “Гавр”
- Ukrainian: “Ґавр”
- Uzbek: “Gâvres”
- Venetian: “Gâvres”
- Vietnamese: “Gâvres”
- Vlaams: “Gâvres”
- Volapük: “Gâvres”
- Walloon: “Gâvres”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gâvres”
- Welsh: “Gavr”
- Welsh: “Gâvres”
- Wolof: “Gâvres”
- Zulu: “Gâvres”
- “Gâvres”
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