Франциядағы Партенаи қаласы

the town in the Nouvelle Aquitaine region of France

Parthenay (paʁtənɛ; Poitevin: Partenaes) is an ancient fortified town and commune in the Deux Sèvres department of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region in western France. It is sited on a rocky spur that is surrounded on two sides by the River Thouet, and is the sub prefecture of the Parthenay arrondissement. It is situated some north of Niort, west of Poitiers, south east of Nantes, and south west of Paris. Each July, Parthenay hosts the Festival Ludique International de Parthenay, otherwise known as the Festival de Jeux or FLIP, in which the town's streets and squares are filled with games of many types. The shorter indoor FLIP d'hiver runs in November.

In 2001, the commune of Parthenay joined together with six neighbouring communes to establish the Communauté de communes de Parthenay, which provides a framework within which local tasks are carried out together. This intercommunality was merged into the Communauté de communes de Parthenay Gâtine in 2014. The new intercommunality has 39 communes, a population of 37,817 (2014) in an area of .

Parthenay is located on the Route nationale 149 (RN149), which runs roughly east–west from Nantes to Poitiers, and which forms part of the European route E62 from Nantes to Genoa. The RN149 is a conventional highway, and has to a certain extent been by passed by a combination of the autoroutes A83 and A10 that passes some to the south of Parthenay. Other major roads link Parthenay to Niort, Saumur, Saint Maixent l'École and La Roche sur Yon. Through traffic can avoid passing through the old town by using a by pass road that encircles the town at a distance of about
The nearest airports are at Poitiers (Poitiers Biard Airport) and Nantes (Nantes Atlantique Airport).