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Auvergne is one of the least populated regions in Europe, and lies at the heart of the empty diagonal, a swath of sparsely populated territory running from northeastern to southwestern France. The main communes in Auvergne are (2019 census, municipal population): Clermont-Ferrand (147,865), Montluçon (34,361), Aurillac (25,593), and Vichy ...
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]
Auvergne had an area of 26,013 square kilometres (10,044 sq mi), which is 4.8% of France's total area. Auvergne was one of the smallest regions in France during its existence. Auvergne was bordered by the administrative regions of Centre-Val de Loire and Burgundy to the north, Rhône-Alpes to the east, Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées ...
Pierre Laval (1883–1945), Prime Minister of France and of the Vichy French regime, was born near Clermont-Ferrand, although he made his political career in Paris. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926–2020), President of France, although not born in the Auvergne, was educated in Clermont-Ferrand and represented it in the National Assembly.
Francis of Sales was born in Sales, France in 1567 and served as bishop of Annecy from 1602 to 1622; [7] his relics are preserved in the cathedral. [6] During the French Revolution, the Savoy region was conquered by France. Annecy became attached to the department of Mont Blanc, whose capital was Chambéry. [8]
During the Hundred Years' War Auvergne faced numerous raids and revolts, including the Tuchin Revolt. In 1424 the Duchy of Auvergne passed to the House of Bourbon. Quite contemporaneously, the County of Auvergne passed to the House of La Tour d'Auvergne, and upon its extinction in 1531 it passed to Catherine de' Medici before becoming a royal ...
Thiers (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Auvergnat: Tièrn) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department of Auvergne in central France. [3] With Ambert, Issoire and Riom, it is one of the department's four sub-prefectures. The district of Thiers consists of forty-three municipalities in six cantons. Its inhabitants are known as Thiernois or Bitords.
It was the head of PRES Clermont Université consortium; PRES being the league of elite universities of France. On 1 January 2017, the university merged with Blaise Pascal University to form the University Clermont Auvergne. The Université d’Auvergne was founded in 1519 and as such in 1806 as a medical school.