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Ain (/æ̃/; French: [ɛ̃] ⓘ; Arpitan: En) is a French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where it borders the cantons of Geneva and Vaud. In 2019 it had a population of 652,432.
Ain is composed of four geographically different areas - (Bresse, Dombes, Bugey and Pays de Gex) - each of which contributes to the diverse and dynamic economic development of the department. In Bresse agriculture and agro-industry are dominated by the cultivation of cereals, cattle breeding, milk and cheese production as well as poultry farming. In Dombes pisciculture assumes greater importance, as does winemaking in Bugey.
Ain's prefecture is Bourg-en-Bresse. It is bordered by Jura to the north, Saône-et-Loire to the northwest, Rhône and the Lyon Metropolis to the southwest, Isère to the south and Savoie, Haute-Savoie and Switzerland to the east.
In the alphabetical ordering of French departments, used for postal and demographic purposes among others, Ain comes first and is thus assigned the number 01 as its department number.
The first inhabitants settled in the territory of today's Ain about 15000 BC. The menhir of Pierrefiche [fr] in Simandre-sur-Suran dates from the mid-Neolithic era, in the fourth or third millennium BC. The late-second century BC Calendar of Coligny bears the oldest surviving Gaulish inscription.
In 58 BC Julius Caesar's military action against the Helvetians, advancing through Gaul over the territory of today's Ain, marked the beginning of the Gallic Wars.
Under the Merovingians the four historic regions of the modern department belonged to the Kingdom of Burgundy. At the start of the 6th century AD the diocese of Belley (Bellicum) was created as the first bishopric in the region. Abbeys of the order of Saint Benedict were established in the valleys.
In 843 the Treaty of Verdun assigned the territories that comprised Ain to the kingdom of Lothar I (Lotharingia). The first big fiefdoms (seigneuries) emerged between 895 and 900 in Bâgé-le-Châtel, which formed the nucleus of the pays of Bresse, and in Coligny. Numerous castles were erected in a low rolling terrain that was not otherwise easily defended. In the 12th century Romanesque architecture flourished.
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Ain (/æ̃/; French: [ɛ̃] ⓘ; Arpitan: En) is a French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where it borders the cantons of Geneva and Vaud. In 2019 it had a population of 652,432.
Ain is composed of four geographically different areas - (Bresse, Dombes, Bugey and Pays de Gex) - each of which contributes to the diverse and dynamic economic development of the department. In Bresse agriculture and agro-industry are dominated by the cultivation of cereals, cattle breeding, milk and cheese production as well as poultry farming. In Dombes pisciculture assumes greater importance, as does winemaking in Bugey.
Ain's prefecture is Bourg-en-Bresse. It is bordered by Jura to the north, Saône-et-Loire to the northwest, Rhône and the Lyon Metropolis to the southwest, Isère to the south and Savoie, Haute-Savoie and Switzerland to the east.
In the alphabetical ordering of French departments, used for postal and demographic purposes among others, Ain comes first and is thus assigned the number 01 as its department number.
The first inhabitants settled in the territory of today's Ain about 15000 BC. The menhir of Pierrefiche [fr] in Simandre-sur-Suran dates from the mid-Neolithic era, in the fourth or third millennium BC. The late-second century BC Calendar of Coligny bears the oldest surviving Gaulish inscription.
In 58 BC Julius Caesar's military action against the Helvetians, advancing through Gaul over the territory of today's Ain, marked the beginning of the Gallic Wars.
Under the Merovingians the four historic regions of the modern department belonged to the Kingdom of Burgundy. At the start of the 6th century AD the diocese of Belley (Bellicum) was created as the first bishopric in the region. Abbeys of the order of Saint Benedict were established in the valleys.
In 843 the Treaty of Verdun assigned the territories that comprised Ain to the kingdom of Lothar I (Lotharingia). The first big fiefdoms (seigneuries) emerged between 895 and 900 in Bâgé-le-Châtel, which formed the nucleus of the pays of Bresse, and in Coligny. Numerous castles were erected in a low rolling terrain that was not otherwise easily defended. In the 12th century Romanesque architecture flourished.
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