Côte-d'Or
{{short description|Department of France in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté}}
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Côte-d'Or ({{IPA|fr|kot dɔʁ|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Côte-d'Or.wav}}) is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of Northeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 534,124.[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/6011060/dep21.pdf Populations légales 2019: 21 Côte-d'Or], INSEE Its prefecture is Dijon and subprefectures are Beaune and Montbard.
History
Côte-d'Or is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was formed from part of the former province of Burgundy. It is arguably unique among the departments in having a name which is poetic, rather than geographic. Given by the representative of Dijon (:fr:Charles-André-Rémy Arnoult), it is said to refer to the autumn gold of the flanks of the hills in the wine-growing area.{{cite web|access-date=19 October 2022 |author=Le Bien Public |date=9 April 2014 |language=fr |title=La Côte-d'or, une histoire qui dure depuis 224 ans |url=https://www.bienpublic.com/actualite/2014/04/09/la-cote-d-or-une-histoire-qui-dure-depuis-224-ans}}.{{cite book|date=2021 |first1=Pierre-Henri |isbn=978-2-87772-769-3 |last1=Billy |oclc=1309874211 |title=Dictionnaire des noms de lieux de la France (DNLF)|publisher=Errance }}
Geography
The department is part of the current region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is surrounded by the departments of Yonne, Nièvre, Saône-et-Loire, Jura, Aube, Haute-Saône, and Haute-Marne.
A chain of hills called the Plateau de Langres runs from north-east to south-west through the department to the north of Dijon and continues south-westwards as the Côte d'Or escarpment, from which the department takes its name. It is the south-east facing slope of this escarpment which is the site of the celebrated Burgundy vineyards. To the west of the Plateau de Langres, towards Champagne, lies the densely wooded district of Châtillonais. To the south-east of the plateau and escarpment, the department lies in the broad, flat-bottomed valley of the middle course of the Saône.{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Côte-d'Or|volume=7|pages=248–249}}
Rivers include:
- The Saône
- The Seine rises in the southern end of the Plateau de Langres.
- The Ouche rises on the dip slope of the escarpment and flows to the Saône via Dijon.
- The Armançon rises on the dip slope of the escarpment and flows north-westward.
- The Arroux rises on the dip slope of the escarpment at the southern end of the department.
= Climate =
The climate of the department is continental, with abundant rain on the west side of the central range.
=Principal towns=
The most populous commune is Dijon, the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 5 communes with more than 10,000 inhabitants:
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! Commune ! Population (2019) |
| Dijon
| style="text-align: center;" | 158,002 |
| Beaune
| style="text-align: center;" | 20,551 |
| Chenôve
| style="text-align: center;" | 14,025 |
| Talant
| style="text-align: center;" | 11,713 |
| Chevigny-Saint-Sauveur
| style="text-align: center;" | 11,123 |
Demographics
The inhabitants of the department are called Costaloriens.
Population development since 1791:{{historical populations|cols=2|align=none|percentages=pagr|footnote=Sources:{{Cite web|url=http://splaf.free.fr/21his.html|title=Historique de la Côte-d'Or|website=Le SPLAF}}{{cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4176909?geo=DEP-21|title=Évolution et structure de la population en 2016|publisher=INSEE}}|graph-pos=bottom
|11=1791|12=342,986|13=1801|14=340,500|15=1806|16=355,436|17=1821|18=358,148|19=1831|20=375,063|21=1841|22=393,316|23=1851|24=400,297|25=1861|26=384,140|27=1872|28=374,510|29=1881|30=382,819|31=1891|32=376,866|33=1901|34=361,626|35=1911|36=350,044|37=1921|38=321,088|39=1931|40=333,800|41=1936|42=334,386|43=1946|44=335,602|45=1954|46=356,839|47=1962|48=387,869|49=1968|50=421,192|51=1975|52=456,070|53=1982|54=473,548|55=1990|56=493,866|57=1999|58=506,755|59=2006|60=516,834|61=2016|62=533,213}}
Politics
{{See also|Departmental Council of Côte-d'Or}}
The President of the Departmental Council is François Sauvadet of the Union of Democrats and Independents.
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!colspan=2| Party | seats |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Socialist Party (France)}}" |
|Socialist Party ||align="right"| 12 | |
|---|---|
| style="background-color: {{party color|Union for a Popular Movement}}" |•
|Union for a Popular Movement ||align="right"| 11 | |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Miscellaneous Right}}" |•
|Miscellaneous Right ||align="right"| 8 | |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Miscellaneous Left}}" |
|Miscellaneous Left ||align="right"| 6 | |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Left Radical Party}}" |
|Left Radical Party ||align="right"| 3 | |
| style="background-color: {{party color|New Centre}}" |•
|New Centre ||align="right"| 2 | |
| style="background-color: {{party color|Democratic Movement (France)}}" |•
|MoDem ||align="right"| 1 |
=Current National Assembly Representatives=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| colspan="2"|Constituency | Member{{Cite web|url=https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/|title=Assemblée nationale ~ Les députés, le vote de la loi, le Parlement français|first=Assemblée|last=Nationale|website=Assemblée nationale}} | Party |
|---|---|---|
| style="background-color: {{party color|La République En Marche!}}" | | ||
| style="background-color: {{party color|The Republicans (France)}}" | | ||
| style="background-color: {{party color|En Marche!}}" | | ||
| style="background-color: {{party color|Ecology Democracy Solidarity}}" | | ||
| style="background-color: {{party color|En Marche!}}" | |
Economy
This is a premier wine-growing region of France. It produces what are arguably the world's finest, and definitely most expensive Pinot noir and Chardonnay wines from some of the most rigorously and painstakingly (thanks to the region's many monasteries) classified vineyards in the world. Wine from the Côte-d'Or was a favorite of the emperor Charlemagne. Other crops include cereal grains and potatoes. Sheep and cattle are also raised in the department. The region is famous for Dijon mustard.
There are coal mines and heavy industry, including steel, machinery, and earthenware.
The industries most developed in Côte-d'Or are
- agriculture and food (14% of employees)
- metallurgy and metal manufacture (12% of employees)
- chemicals, rubber and plastics (12% of employees)
- pharmacy
- electrical and electronic components and equipment
- wood and paper industries.
The big works are generally in the conurbation of Dijon although the biggest (CEA Valduc) is at Salives in the Plateau de Langres. There is also the SEB metal works at Selongey below the plateau on the margin of the Saône plain and the Valourec metalworking group at Montbard in the west of the department on the River Brenne near its confluence with the Armançon. The Pharmaceutical industry has shown the greatest growth in recent years. However, since the Dijon employment statistics zone includes the urban and administrative centre of the Burgundy region, the service sector is proportionately bigger there in relation to the industrial, than in the other three zones of Côte-d'Or.
- Reference [https://web.archive.org/web/20020605135912/http://www.industrie-bourgogne.org/Site/Template/IndexGeo.php?NumSecteur=0&NumeroPage=0 Industry in Bourgogne website]
Tourism
Some of the major tourist attractions are the Gothic abbey church of Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye and the 11th-century Romanesque abbey church at Saulieu, as well the 12th-century Château de Bussy Rabutin at Bussy-le-Grand. The Abbey of Cîteaux, headquarters of the Cistercian Order, lies to the east of Nuits-Saint-Georges in the south of the department.
File:Palais des Ducs.JPG|Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy in Dijon
File:Hostel Dieu Beaune.jpg|Hospices de Beaune
File:Abbaye de Fontenay-EgliseBatiments.jpg|Abbey of Fontenay
File:Chateau La Rochepot 01.jpg|Château de la Rochepot
File:Clos-Vougeot.JPG|Clos de Vougeot, Burgundy wine
File:Muséoparc d'Alésia 0040.jpg|Reenactment of the siege of Alesia in Alise-Sainte-Reine
See also
References
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External links
- {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.cote-dor.gouv.fr/ Prefecture website]
- {{in lang|fr}} [https://www.cotedor.fr/ Departmental Council website]
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