Vouillé, Deux-Sèvres

Vouillé
Vouillé

Coordinates: 46°19′02″N 0°21′39″W / 46.3172°N 0.3608°WCoordinates: 46°19′02″N 0°21′39″W / 46.3172°N 0.3608°W
Country France
Region Poitou-Charentes
Department Deux-Sèvres
Arrondissement Niort
Canton Prahecq
Intercommunality Niort
Government
  Mayor (20082014) Stéphane Pierron
Area1 22.30 km2 (8.61 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 3,071
  Density 140/km2 (360/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 79355 / 79230
Elevation 39–93 m (128–305 ft)
(avg. 69 m or 226 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Vouillé is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. It sits about ten kilometers from Niort on the banks of the Lambon, where that small river empties into the Sèvre Niortaise.

It is traditionally identified as the Campus Vogladensis, site of the Battle of Vouillé (507), in which Clovis definitively vanquished the Visigoths.

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