Corcelles-lès-Cîteaux () 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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* 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 eastern
France
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.
Population
History
The commune is located 18 km south of
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
. It held several names throughout its history: Corcellae (in 871), Curcella (between 1100 and 1110), Curcellae (in 1163), Corcellae in Silva (throughout the 13th century), Corcellae in Nemore (in 1212), Corcellae aux Bois (in 1217), Corclles le bois lez Citeaux (in 1375),Courcelles le bois les Cisteulx (in 1544), Courcelles les Bois (in 1637), Corcelles lez Citeaux (in 1645) and Corcelles au Bois (under the first Republic).
See also
*
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
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