Windmill
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- Type: Windmill
- Description: machine that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy
- Also known as: “Moulin à vent du Cluzelet”, “wind mill”, and “windmill”
- Address: Rue du Moulin à Vent, Jonzac, 17500
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Château de Jonzac and Jonzac.
Château de Jonzac
Castle
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Château de Jonzac is a castle, which is situated 1 km northwest of Windmill.
Jonzac
Railway station
Photo: Daladriel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jonzac is a railway station, which is situated 1½ km west of Windmill.
Église Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais
Church
Photo: JLPC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Église Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais is a church, which is situated 1¼ km west of Windmill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jonzac and Clam.
Jonzac
Village
Photo: Mariiwakura, CC0.
Jonzac is a commune of the Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. The historian Jean Glénisson was born in Jonzac as well as the philosopher Jean Hyppolite.
Clam
Village
Windmill
- Categories: mill, production structure, mill building, geographic location, converter, architectural structure, building, and industry
- Location: Jonzac, Arrondissement of Jonzac, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.44093° or 45° 26′ 27″ northLongitude
-0.42251° or 0° 25′ 21″ westOpen location code
8CQXCHRG+9XOpenStreetMap ID
way 64521149OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=windmillWikidata ID
Q38720
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Windmill” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aerogenerator”
- Afrikaans: “Aërogenerator”
- Afrikaans: “windmeul”
- Afrikaans: “Windmeul”
- Arabic: “الطاحونة الهوائية”
- Arabic: “طاحونة الهواء”
- Arabic: “طاحونة هوائية”
- Arabic: “طاحونه هوائيه”
- Armenian: “Հողմաղաց”
- Azerbaijani: “yel dəyirmanı”
- Azerbaijani: “Yel dəyirmanı”
- Bashkir: “Ел тирмәне”
- Basque: “Haize errota”
- Bavarian: “Windmühle”
- Bavarian: “Windmui”
- Belarusian: “ветраны млын”
- Belarusian: “вятрак”
- Belarusian: “Вятрак”
- Bhojpuri: “पवनचक्की”
- Bosnian: “vjetrenjača”
- Bosnian: “Vjetrenjača”
- Breton: “milin-avel”
- Breton: “Milin-avel”
- Bulgarian: “Вятърна мелница”
- Burmese: “လေရဟက်စက်”
- Catalan: “molí de vent”
- Catalan: “Molí de vent”
- Central Kurdish: “ئاشی با”
- Cheyenne: “vótâháéno tsénéma’ó’á’ha”
- Cheyenne: “Vótâháéno tsénéma’ó’á’ha”
- Chinese: “風車”
- Chinese: “风车”
- Chuvash: “Çил арманĕ”
- Croatian: “vjetrenjača”
- Croatian: “Vjetrenjača”
- Czech: “větrný mlýn”
- Czech: “Větrný mlýn”
- Danish: “mølle”
- Danish: “vejrmølle”
- Danish: “vindmølle”
- Danish: “Vindmølle”
- Dutch: “windmolen”
- Dutch: “Windmolen”
- Esperanto: “ventmuelejo”
- Esperanto: “Ventmuelejo”
- Esperanto: “ventmuelilo”
- Esperanto: “ventomuelejo”
- Esperanto: “ventomuelilo”
- Estonian: “tuuleveski”
- Estonian: “Tuuleveski”
- Estonian: “tuulik”
- Finnish: “tuulimylly”
- Finnish: “Tuulimylly”
- French: “moulin à vent”
- French: “Moulin à vent”
- French: “moulins à vent”
- Galician: “muíño de vento”
- Galician: “Muíño de vento”
- Georgian: “ქარის წისქვილი”
- German: “Horizontalachswindmühle”
- German: “Windmühle”
- Greek: “ανεμόμυλος”
- Greek: “Ανεμόμυλος”
- Gujarati: “પવનચક્કી”
- Hebrew: “טחנת רוח”
- Hindi: “पवनचक्की”
- Hungarian: “szélmalom”
- Hungarian: “Szélmalom”
- Icelandic: “vindmylla”
- Icelandic: “Vindmylla”
- Ido: “Vento-muelilo”
- Inari Sami: “pieggâmillo”
- Indonesian: “kincir angin”
- Indonesian: “Kincir angin”
- Irish: “muileann gaoithe”
- Irish: “Muileann gaoithe”
- Italian: “mulini a vento”
- Italian: “mulino a vento”
- Italian: “Mulino a vento”
- Japanese: “風車”
- Javanese: “kincir angin”
- Javanese: “Kincir angin”
- Kannada: “wind mill”
- Kazakh: “Жел диірмені”
- Korean: “풍차”
- Latin: “ventimola”
- Latin: “Ventimola”
- Latvian: “vēja dzirnavas”
- Latvian: “vējdzirnavas”
- Latvian: “Vējdzirnavas”
- Limburgan: “weendmäöële”
- Limburgan: “wèndjmeule”
- Limburgan: “windmeule”
- Limburgan: “Windmeule”
- Lithuanian: “vėjo malūnas”
- Lithuanian: “Vėjo malūnas”
- Low German: “Horizontalasswindmöhl”
- Low German: “wiendmeul”
- Low German: “wiendmeule”
- Low German: “windmeulen”
- Low German: “Windmöhl”
- Low German: “windmölle”
- Low German: “Windmölle”
- Lower Sorbian: “Wětšnik”
- Lule Sami: “bieggamillo”
- Luxembourgish: “Wandmillen”
- Macedonian: “ветерна мелница”
- Macedonian: “ветерница”
- Macedonian: “Ветерница”
- Malay: “kincir angin”
- Malay: “Kincir angin”
- Manx: “mwyllin geayee”
- Manx: “Mwyllin geayee”
- Marathi: “पवनचक्की”
- Northern Sami: “bieggajorri”
- Northern Sami: “bieggamillu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “vindmølle”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “vindmøller”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “vindmølle”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vindmølle”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “vindmylne”
- Norwegian: “Vindmølle”
- Occitan (post 1500): “molin d’aura”
- Occitan (post 1500): “molin de vent”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Molin de vent”
- Panjabi: “ਪੌਣਚੱਕੀ”
- Papiamento: “molina di biento”
- Papiamento: “Molina di biento”
- Pennsylvania German: “Windmill”
- Persian: “آسیاب بادی”
- Persian: “آسیای بادی”
- Persian: “اسیاب بادی”
- Persian: “اسیای بادی”
- Picard: “molin à vint”
- Picard: “Molin à vint”
- Piemontese: “Mulin a vent”
- Polish: “wiatrak”
- Polish: “Wiatrak”
- Portuguese: “moinho de vento”
- Portuguese: “Moinho de vento”
- Portuguese: “moinhos de vento”
- Pushto: “بادي ژرنده”
- Romanian: “moara de vânt”
- Romanian: “moară de vânt”
- Romanian: “Moară de vânt”
- Russia Buriat: “Һалхин тээрмэ”
- Russian: “ветряная мельница”
- Russian: “Ветряная мельница”
- Russian: “ветряное колесо”
- Samogitian: “vieja malūns”
- Saterfriesisch: “Wiendmäälne”
- Scots: “windmill”
- Scots: “Windmill”
- Serbian: “Ветрењача”
- Serbian: “вјетрењача”
- Serbian: “Вјетрењача”
- Serbo-Croatian: “vetrenjača”
- Serbo-Croatian: “vjetrenjača”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vjetrenjača”
- Skolt Sami: “piõggmaal”
- Slovak: “veterný mlyn”
- Slovak: “Veterný mlyn”
- Slovenian: “mlin na veter”
- Slovenian: “Mlin na veter”
- Spanish: “molino de viento”
- Spanish: “Molino de viento”
- Swedish: “stolpkvarn”
- Swedish: “väderkvarn”
- Swedish: “Väderkvarn”
- Swedish: “vindmölla”
- Sylheti: “ꠛꠁꠀꠞꠞ ꠙꠣꠈꠣ”
- Tagalog: “molino de viento”
- Tagalog: “Molinong tore”
- Tagalog: “molinos de viento”
- Tagalog: “mulina”
- Tagalog: “mulino”
- Tagalog: “Mulino”
- Tagalog: “mulinong panghangin”
- Tagalog: “mulinong tore”
- Tagalog: “toreng molino”
- Tagalog: “toreng mulino”
- Tagalog: “wind mill”
- Tagalog: “wind-mill”
- Tagalog: “windmill”
- Tagalog: “windmills”
- Tamil: “காற்றாலை”
- Telugu: “గాలి మర”
- Thai: “กังหันลมวินด์มิลล์”
- Turkish: “rüzgar değirmeni”
- Turkish: “yel değirmeni”
- Turkish: “Yel değirmeni”
- Ukrainian: “вітряк”
- Ukrainian: “Вітряк”
- Ukrainian: “вітряний млин”
- Upper Sorbian: “wětrnik”
- Upper Sorbian: “Wětrnik”
- Urdu: “پون چکی”
- Uzbek: “shamol tegirmoni”
- Uzbek: “Shamol tegirmoni”
- Venetian: “Molin a vent”
- Venetian: “mołin a vento”
- Vietnamese: “cối xay gió”
- Vietnamese: “Cối xay gió”
- Vlaams: “wiendmeuln”
- Vlaams: “windmeuln”
- Vlaams: “Windmeuln”
- Walloon: “molén å vint”
- Walloon: “Molén å vint”
- Walloon: “moléns a vint”
- Waray (Philippines): “dihangin nga mulinohan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dihangin nga mulinohan”
- Welsh: “melin wynt”
- Welsh: “Melin wynt”
- Western Frisian: “mole”
- Western Frisian: “mûne”
- Western Frisian: “wynmole”
- Western Frisian: “Wynmole”
- Western Frisian: “wynmûne”
- Western Panjabi: “ہوا آلی چکی”
- Wu Chinese: “风车(动力机)”
- Wu Chinese: “风车”
- Yiddish: “ווינטמיל”
- Yue Chinese: “風車”
- “Vieja malūns”
- “पवनचक्की”
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