Saint-Malo (English spelling)

Japanese: サン･マロ（英語表記）Saint‐Malo

A port town and seaside resort on the north coast of the Brittany Peninsula in western France. Population 49,000 (1990). In 1967, the connected islands of Saint-Malo, Saint-Servan, and Paramé merged. Since Roman times, Areto in the Saint-Servan district flourished as the administrative center, but people gradually moved to the island of Saint-Malo, which was easier to defend against Norman invasions, and the bishopric was also moved there in 1144. The island is surrounded by a 12th century wall, and the town, destroyed in World War II, has been rebuilt exactly as it was in the past, conveying vestiges of the Middle Ages.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

フランス西部，ブルターニュ半島北岸の港町で，海浜保養地。人口4万9000(1990)。1967年に陸繫島のサン･マロとサン･セルバン，パラメが合併。ローマ時代以来，サン･セルバン地区のアレトが行政中心地として栄えたが，ノルマンの侵入を防ぎやすいサン･マロ島に人々が次第に移り，1144年に司教座も移転した。この島部は12世紀の城壁に囲まれ，第2次大戦で壊された市街も昔のままに再建され，中世の面影を伝えている。

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