Annabelle Lee. Adda sexy. Nantes ; is a city in western France on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of nearly , in Nantes and an urban area of , inhabitants. With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms the main north-western French metropolis. Nantes was identified during classical antiquity as a port on the Loire. It was the seat of a bishopric at the end of the Roman era before it was conquered by the Bretons in Although Nantes was the primary residence of the 15th-century dukes of Brittany, Rennes became the provincial capital after the union of Brittany and France.
During the 17th century, after the establishment of the French colonial empire, Nantes gradually became the largest port in France and was responsible for nearly half of the 18th-century French Atlantic slave trade. The French Revolution resulted in an economic decline, but Nantes developed robust industries after Deindustrialisation in the second half of the 20th century spurred the city to adopt a service economy.
It is the fourth-highest-ranking city in France, after Paris, Lyon and Marseilles. Nantes has been praised for its quality of life, and it received the European Green Capital Award in The European Commission noted the citys efforts to reduce air pollution and CO emissions, its high-quality and well-managed public transport system and its biodiversity, with of green space and several protected Natura areas.
