Touraine, one of the old provinces of France, of which the capital was Tours (q.v.), and which coincided with the department of Indre-et-Loire and a part of Vienne. See Old Touraine, by T. A. Cook (1892), and La Touraine, by Robida (1892).
Touraine
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 256
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