Vivaro-Alpine
Vivaro-Alpine ( oc, vivaroalpenc, vivaroaupenc) is a variety of Occitan language, Occitan spoken in southeastern France (namely, around the Dauphiné area) and northwestern Italy (the Occitan Valleys of Piedmont and Liguria). There is also a sma ...
: ''Ais de Diés'') is a former
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Drôme
Drôme (; Occitan: ''Droma''; Arpitan: ''Drôma'') is the southernmost department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. Named after the river Drôme, it had a population of 516,762 as of 2019.
department
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* 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 southeastern
France
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. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune
Solaure-en-Diois
Solaure-en-Diois () is a Communes of France, commune in the Drôme Departments of France, department of southeastern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Aix-en-Diois and Molières-Glan ...
.
History
Aix-en-Diois belonged to the counts and later to the bishops of
Die
Die, as a verb, refers to death, the cessation of life.
Die may also refer to:
Games
* Die, singular of dice, small throwable objects used for producing random numbers
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* Die (integrated circuit), a rectangular piece of a semicondu ...
(twelfth century). Later, it belonged to the
Princes of Orange
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The title ...
, and finally to the
La Tour du Pin
La Tour-du-Pin (; frp, La Tor-du-Pin) is a subprefecture of the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. In 2018, the commune had a population of 8,137.
Geography
The Bourbre flows west through the southern ...
family (seventeenth century). The commune contains the remains of Roman baths and the ruins of a 13th-century medieval castle with a polygonal enclosure and corner towers, rebuilt in the 16th century.Michèle Bois et Chrystèle Burgard, Fortifications et châteaux dans la Drôme, éditions Créaphis, 192 p, 2004 The castle hall dates from the 17th century and is the former summer residence of the Bishop of Die. The main church is the Church of the Immaculate Conception.