Cloyes-sur-le-Loir | |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason Cloyes-sur-le-Loir.svg |
Arrondissement: | Châteaudun |
Canton: | Brou |
Commune: | Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières |
Insee: | 28103 |
Postal Code: | 28220 |
Coordinates: | 47.9978°N 1.2358°W |
Elevation M: | 105 |
Elevation Min M: | 92 |
Elevation Max M: | 152 |
Area Km2: | 19.85 |
Population: | 2668 |
Population Date: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Cloyes-sur-le-Loir (pronounced as /fr/, literally Cloyes on the Loir) is a former commune on the River Loir, a few kilometres south of the town of Châteaudun in the department of Eure-et-Loir in northern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Cloyes-les-Trois-Rivières.[2]
It was the home of Stephen of Cloyes, a leader of the Children's Crusade. Mezzo-soprano Juliette Borghèse was born in the town.[3]