Pays de la Mée, literally translated to Land of la Mée, means "pays du milieu" ("middle-country") in French. The area is located between Angers, Nantes, and Rennes. Around the 10th century, it was a buffer zone when the counts of each city were fighting. It also has an old mercantile tradition—the fair at Châteaubriant was founded in 1049. The Pays de la Mée is first mentioned in 1055. It disappeared as an administrative unit around 1270, when the counties of Nantes and Rennes merged into one single state.
