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Port-sur-Saône () is a
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in the
Haute-Saône Haute-Saône (; Arpitan: ''Hiôta-Sona''; English: Upper Saône) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of northeastern France. Named after the river Saône, it had a population of 235,313 in 2019.department in the
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Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...
in eastern
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. It was probably the Roman ''Portus Abucini''.Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854):Portus Abucini
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Population


Twin towns

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, Ivory Coast * Kursenai, Lithuania There are also friendship within the town: * Grodzisk Mazowiecki,
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See also

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Communes of the Haute-Saône department The following is a list of the 539 communes in the French department of Haute-Saône. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Haute-Saône Sequani {{HauteSaône-geo-stub