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Sai, Orne
Commune in Normandy, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sai is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France. It has a population of 222.[3] Its inhabitants are known as Sayiens (male) and Sayiennes (female).
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Geography
The commune of is made up of the following villages and hamlets (Bordeaux and Sai).[4]
Parts of the commune make up the area, the Plaine d'Argentan, which is known for its cereal growing fileds and horse stud farms.[5]
Sai along with another 65 communes is part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.[6]
Sai has 2 bodies of water running through it, The Orne and The Ure.[7]
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Toponymy
The name of the village has been found under the forms: Saium in 1086, See et Zee in 1207, Saieum in 1223, Sav in 1418.[8]
Notable people
- Thierry Ardisson (1949), a French TV host and Producer lives in the commune.[9]
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