Brochon () is a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Côte-d'Or
Côte-d'Or (; literally, "Golden Slope") is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of Northeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 534,124.[department
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Government and military
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in eastern
France
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.
Population
Wine
Some of the vineyards in Brochon are part of the ''
appellation d'origine contrôlée
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''
Gevrey-Chambertin
Gevrey-Chambertin () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department of France in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. , and some are part of
Fixin
Fixin is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne region on the Grand Crus route in eastern France. The French archaeologist Roland Martin (1912–1997) died in Fixin.
Wine
Fixin is one of the wine communes of Côte de Nu ...
appellation. Most are however only entitled to the (AOC) appellation. There is no Brochon appellation.
Twin towns
Brochon is
twinned with:
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Weinolsheim
Weinolsheim is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in Rhenish He ...
,
Germany
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See also
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Communes of the Côte-d'Or department
The following is a list of the 698 Communes of France, communes of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):
References
Communes of Côte-d'Or
Côte-d'Or communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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