Policy of the Rhone-Alps area

Statistics

The Rhone-Alps area is an administrative area of France, formed of the departments:

of the Ain (01) 417.000 H
of the Ardeche (07) 277.600 H
of the Drome (26) 414.100 H
of the Isere (38) 1.016.200 H
of the the Loire (42) 746.300 H
of the the Rhone (69) 1.509.000 H
of the Savoy (73) 348.300 H
of the Haute-Savoie (74) 568.300 H

Chief town: Lyon.
Regional Prefecture in Lyon.
Superficie is of 43.698 km ².
Population is of 5.296.800 inhabitants.

The inhabitants are called of Rhônalpins.

Geography

The Rhone-Alps area extends on the Beaujolais, the Lyonnais and the Dauphiné. It is a cattle-rearing area and locally, vineyards the such coast of the Beaujolais wine. Small mechanical engineering industries and textile are present.

The area owes the socio-professional distribution of its active population and her economic importance in Lyon. The agglomeration concentrates almost the totality of the lines of business and industrial. It gathers more than 80% of the total population of the department. Mountains and valleys are the major feature of the Rhone-Alps landscapes. The Alps of North have an imposing mountainous solid mass. The Rhone-Alps, it is also in the West the edge of the Massif Central and the southernmost part of the Jura. The many valleys are often broad. In the Western part of the Alpine Solid mass, they penetrate sometimes very deeply in the Solid masses.

The distribution of the activities and the men is channeled there by the geography. She obeys a tramage Is/Western and NORTH-SOUTH. One finds there the valley of the the Rhone and the the Saone, the Alpine valleys of the Isere, the Maurienne, the Tarentaise or Arve. But also the perforated alpine one of Grenoble to Geneva, by Chambéry, and Annecy or the valley of Gier, Saint-Etienne to Lyon.

This landscape of great width shelters the second French economic area. Lyon is from now on a metropolis of European level. His/her little sister, Grenoble is the capital of the the Alps.

The Rhône Alpes area is made up inter alia the Dauphine one and of Savoy

Dauphine

The territories of Dauphine are in turn with the hands of the Ligure S, the Celte S and the Romain S. AV J. - C., the left bank of the Rhone trains the Viennese. It belongs to the kingdom burgonde after Jesus-Christ in 480, then undergoes the franque occupation.

5th century at the 10th century, it forms part successively of various kingdoms such as the Provence-Viennese, Provence bosonienne and Burgundy-Provence. It is integrated into the Germanic Empire at the time of the Traité of Verdun of 843.

The Count d' Albon Guigues VII takes the title of dolphin in 1098. Dolphin is an old first name. Three families follow one another the head of the Dauphine one. It is about Albon, of 1029 with 1162, of Burgundy, of 1192 with 1282 and of the Tour-du-Pin of 1282 with 1349.

The Dauphine one is not incorporated in the royal field. It becomes the traditional prerogative of the oldest son of the king. The treated of Paris in 1355 fixes the limits with the Savoy. The dolphin Charles, future Charles V, creates the provincial States of Dauphine in 1357. It raises into Dauphine the imperial eagle of the “vicars”, symbol of imperial suzerainty. Become the king of France, Louis XI does not give the Dauphine one to his/her son and the administration preserves some. Its successors, while guaranteeing the privileges of the province, do as much of it.

Several Savoyard invasions will take place during the wars of the league of Augsburg and the Succession of Spain. In 1788, the assembly of Vizille claims general states.

Savoy

Savoy with the Paléolithique was inhabited by hunters magdaléniens. Then the Ligure S or populations came from mountainous Maurienne and Tarentaise. Celtic S and Romain S penetrate these territories little.

In 122 Before J. - C., the consul Domitius Ahenobarbus beats the Celts and their Genaba capital, become Geneva is annexed to the Provincia Romana . Towards 354 appears the word Sapaudia which indicates current the Savoy and part of the Helvétie. It is incorporated in the kingdom mérovingien by wire of Clovis in 534.

Savoy is established in duchy in 1416. In 1559, Emmanuel Philibert transports its capital of Chambéry to Turin under the pressure of the French armed forces.

The Traité of Lyon of 1601 yields to Henri IV the Bresse, the Bugey and the country of Gex. Savoy is occupied by France under Louis XIV. In 1792, Savoy is attached to France in the form of the department of Mont Blanc, to be annexed definitively in 1860.

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