Landes
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Landes, or Lanas in Gascon, means moorland or heath. Landes and Lanas come from the Latin plānus meaning “‘flat, even, level, plain’”. They are therefore cognate with the English plain (and plane), the Spanish word llanos and the Italian word piano.
[edit] Places
- Landes (department), a département in France
- Landes forest or Landes of Gascony, a natural region in south-west of France
- Landes, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département
- Landes-sur-Ajon
- Saint-Hilaire-des-Landes, Brittany
- Rion-des-Landes
- Centre d'Essais des Landes, launch site for testing military rockets
[edit] People
People with the surname Landes include:
- Bertha Knight Landes, former mayor, Seattle, Washington
- Daniel Landes, Rabbi at Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem und New York City
- David Landes, economics professor, Harvard University
- Lewis Landes, US Army Colonel
- Lynn Landes, journalist
- Michael Landes, American actor
- Richard Landes, historian
- Ruth Landes, anthropologist
- Silas Z. Landes (1842-1910), American politician
- William Landes, economist
[edit] See also
- Cantons of the Landes department
- Arrondissements of the Landes department
- Communes of the Landes department
- Saint-Sulpice-des-Landes (disambiguation)
- Landes Eternelles, a French spinoff of multi-player open source game Eternal Lands that is under development
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