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Vichy is the French form of the Occitan name of the town, Vichèi, of uncertain etymology. Dauzat & al. have proposed that it derived from an unattested Latin name (Vippiacus) referencing the most important regional landowner (presumably a "Vippius") during the time of the Roman emperor Diocletian's administrative reorganizations and land surveys at the end of the 3rd century AD.
The arrondissement of Vichy is an arrondissement of France in the Allier department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has 160 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 153,276 (2021), and its area is 3,151.2 km 2 (1,216.7 sq mi).
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (French pronunciation: [ovɛʁɲ ʁonalp] ⓘ; ARA) [note 1] is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes. The new region came into effect on 1 January 2016, after the regional elections in December 2015. [4]
Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9 August 1944), officially the French State (État français), was a French rump state headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II, established after the French capitulation after the defeat against Germany. It was named after its seat of government, the city of Vichy.
Allier (UK: / ˈ æ l i eɪ / AL-ee-ay, [3] US: / æ l ˈ j eɪ, ɑː l ˈ j eɪ / a(h)l-YAY, [4] [5] French: ⓘ; Occitan: Alèir) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that borders Cher to the west, Nièvre to the north, Saône-et-Loire and Loire to the east, Puy-de-Dôme to the south, and Creuse to the south-west.
Vichy Communauté is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Vichy. It is located in the Allier department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, central France. Created in 2017, its seat is in Vichy. [1] Its area is 741.3 km 2. Its population was 82,810 in 2019, of which 24,980 in Vichy proper. [2]
Rhône-Alpes (French pronunciation: [ʁon alp] ⓘ) [2] was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. [3] It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône and the Alps mountain range.
The geography of the canton of Vichy-1 is composed of: [2] Three communes in their entirety: Charmeil, Saint-Germain-des-Fossés, and Saint-Rémy-en-Rollat. The part of the commune of Vichy situated to the north of line defined by the axis of the roads and boundaries as follows: from the territorial limit of the municipality of Cusset, allée Mesdames, rue d'Alsace, rue du Champ-de-Foire ...