Poitou, formerly a province in France, lying S. of the Loire, between the Vienne River and the sea; passed to England when its countess, Eleanor, married Henry I., 1152; was taken by Philip Augustus 1205, ceded to England again 1360, and retaken by Charles V. 1369.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Poitiers * Pola