Calvados
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Calvados is a branch in the Normandy area in northwestern France. It takes its name from a cluster of rocks off the English Channel coast. Calvados is one of the original 83 departments created throughout the French Revolution on four March 1790. It changed into constituted of part of the former province of Normandy. The call Orne inferieure changed into initially proposed for the branch, however it was in the long run determined to name the vicinity Calvados after a set of rocks off its coast. One famous legend ascribes its etymology to the Salvador, a deliver from the Spanish Armada that sank via the rocks close to Arromanches les bains in 1588.
It is much more likely, but, that the name Calvados changed into derived from calva dorsa, that mean bare backs, in reference to carefully vegetated rocks off its shore. After the allied victory at Waterloo the branch turned into occupied with the aid of Prussian troops between June 1815 and November 1818. Agriculture dominates the economy of Calvados. The place is understood for generating butter, cheese, cider and Calvados, the apple spirit that takes its name from the region.
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