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Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost (, literally ''Saint-Maurice of Beynost'') is a commune in the Ain
department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
, in the
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Au ...
region, located at about from Lyon. The commune is included in the
canton of Miribel The canton of Miribel is an administrative division in eastern France. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was expanded from 5 to 8 communes: *Beynost *La Boisse * Miribel *Neyron * Niévroz *Sain ...
and in the intercommunality of
communauté de communes de Miribel et du Plateau The Communauté de communes de Miribel et du Plateau is a ''communauté de communes'' in the Ain ''département'' and in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ''région'' of France. It was established on 31 December 1997.Artificial Silk". The need for workers in this factory led to a quadrupling of the population in just five years, between 1926 and 1931. Today, the factory, which belongs to the Japanese group
Toray Industries is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan that specializes in industrial products centered on technologies in organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and biochemistry. Its founding business areas were fibers and textiles, ...
, is still the main employer in the city with nearly five hundred employees. The inhabitants of Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost are called ''Mauriciens''.


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Sports

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Ain Sud Foot Ain Sud, previously Ain Sud Foot, is a French association football team founded in 1999. They are based in Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France and are currently playing in the Championnat National 3 Group M, since the 2017†...
, football


See also

* Communes of the Ain department *
Canton of Miribel The canton of Miribel is an administrative division in eastern France. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was expanded from 5 to 8 communes: *Beynost *La Boisse * Miribel *Neyron * Niévroz *Sain ...


References

Communes of Ain Armenian diaspora communities Ain communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Ain-geo-stub