History. Hautes-Alpes is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It consists of the southeast of the former province of Dauphiné and the north of Provence.. At the time when the department was created, the two mountain communes of La Grave and Villar-d'Arêne successfully campaigned to be included in Hautes-Alpes and not in …

Nord (French pronunciation: (); officially French: département du Nord; Picard: départémint dech Nord; Dutch: Noorderdepartement, lit. 'Northern Department') is a department in Hauts-de-France region, France bordering Belgium.It was created from the western halves of the historical counties of Flanders and Hainaut, and the Bishopric of Cambrai. ...

Les Hautes-Alpes (/ o t. z ‿ a l p / ou / o. t ə. z ‿ a l p / [2]) sont un département français de la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.L'Insee et la Poste lui attribuent le code 05. Son chef-lieu est Gap.Les habitants des Hautes-Alpes sont les Haut-Alpins (ou Hauts-Alpins).Les Hautes-Alpes sont un département dont le territoire est entièrement situé en zone de montagne, comprenant ...

The present department consists of the historical region of Léon and parts of Cornouaille and Trégor, both parts of pre-revolutionary Brittany.. The name Finistère derives from the Latin Finis Terræ, meaning end of the earth. In England, a similar area is called Land's End.The Breton name for Finistère, Penn ar Bed, translates as "Head/End of the World" and is similar to the …

The commune (French pronunciation: ) is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.French communes are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, Gemeinden in Germany, comuni in Italy, or municipios in Spain. The United Kingdom's equivalent are civil parishes, although some areas, particularly urban …

Aude (French: (); Occitan: ) is a department in Southern France, located in the Occitanie region and named after the river Aude. The departmental council also calls it "Cathar Country" (French: Pays cathare) after a group of religious dissidents active in the 12th to 14th centuries.Its prefecture is Carcassonne and its subprefectures are Limoux and Narbonne.

History. Orne is one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution, on 4 March 1790.It was created from parts of the former provinces of Normandy and Perche.It is the birthplace of Charlotte Corday, Girondist and the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat.. Geography. Orne is in the region of Normandy neighbouring Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Sarthe, Manche, Mayenne, and …

Charente (French: (); Saintongese: Chérente; Occitan: Charanta [tʃaˈɾantɔ]) is a department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, south western France.It is named after the river Charente, the most important and longest river in the department, and also the river beside which the department's two largest towns, Angoulême and Cognac, are sited.

Jura (/ ˈ (d) ʒ ʊər ə / JOOR-ə, ZHOOR-ə, French: ()) [needs Arpitan IPA] is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France. Named after the Jura Mountains, its prefecture is Lons-le-Saunier.Its subprefectures are Dole and Saint-Claude.In 2019, Jura had a population of 259,199. Its INSEE code is 39. It has a short portion of the border of Switzerland

Seine-et-Marne (French pronunciation: [sɛn e maʁn] ()) is a department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France.Named after the rivers Seine and Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square kilometres (2,284 square miles); it roughly covers its eastern half.In 2019, it had a population of 1,421,197. Its prefecture is Melun, although both …