Reze

Reze is a cooperative district and previous church district in the Loire-Atlantique office in the Brittany locale of western France. It was likewise called Ratiate in the Middle Ages and Rezay in the High Middle Ages. Occupants of Reze are called Rezeens. Reze goes back to the Roman time, when it was known as Portus Ratiatus and Ratiatum Pictonum Portus picton port of Reze.

Being populated by the Ambilatres clan - Armorican Gauls - Reze was a vital port on the south shore of the Loire and a spot for gatherings and exchange between the different Celtic clans of the locale. In 510 a Latin Catholic Diocese of Reze was set up on an area split off from the Diocese of Poitiers. It was stifled 851, its domain being reassigned to the close-by then Diocese of Nantes. No officeholders or different subtleties accessible.

It has remnants of Gallo-Roman settlement and a monastery of Saint Lucien. In the primitive age, it was the capital of the Pays de Retz inside the Duchy of Brittany. The collective is encompassed by the cooperatives of Nantes, Vertou, Les Sorinieres, Pont-Saint-Martin and Bouguenais. It is constrained north by the Loire, east by the Sevre Nantaise and the Ilette, west by the Jaguere and south by the lane peripherique of Nantes.