Coast-in Or

See also: Coast-with Or (homonymy)

The department of the Coast-D' Gold (21) is a department French in the area of the Burgundy.

History

See also: History of Coast-in Or

The department of the Coast-D' Gold was creates on March 4th, 1790 by the constituent Assembly starting from the old province of Burgundy. Province on which the department was always closely dependant.

Origin of the name

Coast-in Or not to be baptized according to a geographical criterion strictly speaking is the only French department. The name was chosen by Andre-Rémy Arnoult, lawyer at the Parliament of Dijon and deputy of the Assemblée of 1790, which proposed this name, taking as a starting point the gilded color which the vines took coast beaunoise with the autumn (coast which it even taken thereafter the name of Côte of Gold). This name holds then only of poetry. He was preferred by the Parliament with others such as the High-Seine or the Seine-and-Saone .

Geography

See also: Geography of Coast-in Or

Coast-in Or belongs to the area Burgundy. It is bordering on the departments of the Yonne, of the Nievre, Saône-et-Loire, the the Jura, the Haute-Saône, the Aube and the Haute-Marne.

Cours d' water

The Gold Coast is located on the threshold of Burgundy, dividing the basins slopes of the the Seine, the the Rhone (of the the Saone) and of the the Loire. On the department affluents of each river run, in particular:

  • the Armançon and the Paddle which run towards the Seine, which itself takes its source in the department, on the Plateau of Langres to the Saint-Germain-Source-Seine;
  • the Arroux which takes its source in the south of the department and which joined the Loire thereafter;
  • the the Saone, the tributary main thing of the the Rhone which crosses a good part of the east of the department while crossing inter alia Auxonne, Saint-Jean-with-Losne or Seurre. The Ouche, affluent of the Saone, is undoubtedly the emblématique river of the department, crossing Dijon in particular.

Topography

Coast-in Or is divided into 4 great geographical units, the Morvan in south-west, the Plateau of Langres in north, the plain of the the Saone in the east and the Auxois - Châtillonais in the North-West.

The culminating point of the department, 723  m (Mount of Gien) is in Morvan, in the enclave of Ménessaire whereas the point low 174  m is at the exit of the Saone.

Climate

See also: Climate of Coast-in Or

The climate of Coast-in Or, Climate with continental tendency, faded in its different left and presents several facies then like:

  • the valley of Sâone, which is with continental tendency Côte of Gold
  • the Morvan or on the tops of the Coasts, where one finds more one climate of medium mountains
  • the Plateau of Langres where the winters are long, cold with very often frosts

Generally, the summers can be hot and dry, as for the winters, they are generally cold and wet with frequent falls of Neige.

Economy

See also: Economy of Coast-in Or

Demography

See also: Demography of Coast-in Or

The inhabitants of Coast-in Or are the Coast-with Oriens , one also hears of Costaloriens .

The department is classified in the average French departments for its population (50e on 100), but because of its surface, its density is low (56 hab/km ²) at the national level (63e)

In spite of the depopulation of rural environments, constituting most of the department, the relative demographic dynamism of Dijon makes it possible the population of the department to grow with each census and to exceed them: 500000 inhabitants.

Evolution of the population since one half-century:

Culture

See also: Culture in Coast-in Or

Tourism

Coast-in Or has real tourist assets among which a considerable cultural heritage.

One can quote peel-mixes:

But Coast-in Or can also present varied landscapes:

  • the Coast of Gold

  • the Circus of End of the World close to Beaune
  • the Morvan with in particular the Panorama of Savilly
  • forests of the Châtillonais

Others

Heraldic

  • Armorial of the communes of Coast-in Or
  • Blazon of Coast-in Or: half-compartment, with the first party, out of I: of sown azure of flowers of gold lily to the componée edge of mouths and money; in II: bandaged of six parts of azure and gold to the edge of mouths; with the gold second lime pit . This blazon was drawn by Robert Louis

Policy

See also: Political of Coast-in Or

  • List of the deputies of Coast-in Or

  • List of the senators of Coast-in Or
  • List of the general advisers of Coast-in Or

See too

Internal bonds

  • General advice of the Coast-D' Gold
  • French Department
  • Dijon
  • Coast of Gold (massive of)
  • Road of the Great wines
  • List of bridges of Coast-in Or

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