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 | | Placentia's physical geography made it one of Newfoundland's busiest settlements in the seventeenth century and the largest on the south coast. |
 | | Placentia attracted fishermen from a wide variety of places along the European shore, from the Basque country in southwest France, Spain and Portugal in the south, the Atlantic coast of France, Brittany, Normandy, the French interior, and, after 1713, from southwest England and southeast Ireland. |
 | | Placentia was by far the largest of some two dozen planter communities of French derivation along the south coast of Newfoundland, extending from Trepassey on the border of the English shore west to St.Pierre and into Fortune Bay. |
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