Franche-Comté | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/12/2018

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Franche-Comté


00:01:35 1 History
00:04:36 2 Environment
00:06:15 2.1 Geology
00:06:26 3 Principal cities
00:06:36 4 Language
00:07:10 5 People from Franche-Comté
00:08:23 6 Typical regional products



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Franche-Comté (French pronunciation: ​[fʁɑ̃ʃ kɔ̃te]; literally "Free County", Frainc-Comtou: Fraintche-Comtè; Arpitan: Franche-Comtât; German: Freigrafschaft; Spanish: Franco Condado) is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, Jura, Haute-Saône and the Territoire de Belfort. In 2015, its population was 1,179,735.
From 1956 to 2015, the Franche-Comté was a French administrative region. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.The region is named after the Franche Comté de Bourgogne (Free County of Burgundy), definitively separated from the region of Burgundy proper in the fifteenth century. In 2016, these two halves of the historic Kingdom of Burgundy were reunited, as the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is also the 6th biggest region in France. The name "Franche-Comté" is feminine because the word "comté" in the past was generally feminine, although today it is masculine.
The principal cities are the capital Besançon, Belfort and Montbéliard (the last two form the aire urbaine Belfort-Montbéliard-Héricourt-Delle). Other important cities are Dole (the capital before the region was conquered by Louis XIV in the late seventeenth century), Vesoul (capital of Haute-Saône), Arbois (the "wine capital" of the Jura), and Lons-le-Saunier (the capital of Jura).