Haute Vienne

Haute-Vienne is a French branch named after the river Vienne. It is one of the 12 departments that collectively constitute the French vicinity of Nouvelle Aquitaine. The neighboring departments are Creuse, Correze, Dordogne, Charente, Vienne and Indre. There are 3 administrative regions within the branch the Arrondissement of Limoges, the capital of which is Limoges the Arrondissement of Bellac, the capital of that is Bellac some 45 km to the northwest of Limoges and the Arrondissement of Rochechouart with its capital, Rochechouart to the west of Limoges.

The chief and largest town in the branch is Limoges, the other cities in the branch every having fewer than 20000 inhabitants. A few Paleolithic and Mesolithic stays had been located within the department Neolithic population are attested to with the aid of status stones and by way of burial chambers, like the dolmen Chez Boucher in La Croix sur Gartempe and others at Berneuil and Breuilaufa. Artifacts from the Bronze Age include all heads located at Chalus with the approaching of the Romans alternate changed into opened up and gold and tin had been mined. Agriculture advanced and grapes have been grown amphorae for storing wine was observed at Saint Gence.