Left Bank

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In general usage, the left bank of a river is the side to one's left while facing downstream.

As a name, Left Bank may refer to:

  • Rive Gauche, the left bank of the Seine in Paris; gauche means "left" in French
  • Left Bank (Biscay), the left bank of the Nervión in Biscay, Spain
  • Left Bank (Kiev), the left bank of the Dnieper in Kiev
  • Left-bank Ukraine, a historical region in Ukraine
  • Left Bank (Philadelphia), a river bank in Philadelphia which anomalously is situated on the left facing upstream[citation needed]
  • Left Bank (Rhine), the western side of the river Rhine, a region historically contested between France and Germany.
  • The Left Banke, a 1960s American pop group
  • Rive Gauche Nightclub, a Parisian-themed nightclub in the River West District of Chicago
  • A section of Bordeaux along the Gironde river known as the Médoc

[edit] See also

Languages