Allier
Allier ( , , ; oc, Alèir) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that borders Cher to the west, Nièvre to the north, Saône-et-Loire and Loire to the east, Puy-de-Dôme to the south, and Creuse to the south-west. Named afte ...
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, ...
Bilhi dins lo canton de Varenas.png, alt=Location of Billy in the former canton of Varennes-sur-Allier, Billy in the former canton of Varennes-sur-Allier.
Bilhi dins la Comunautat d'Aglomeracion Vichèi Val d'Alèir.png, alt=Location of Billy in the agglomeration community of Vichy Val d'Allier, Billy in the Vichy conurbation.
Bilhi.png, alt=Location of Billy on the map of Cassini, Billy on the map of Cassini.
History
Between this village and nearby
Créchy
Créchy (; oc, Creschic) is a commune in the Allier department in central France.
Between this village and nearby Billy, lagerstätten have yielded a rich assemblage of fossils from the Oligocene- Miocene boundary (c. 24-23 million years a ...
Oligocene
The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the ...
- Miocene boundary (c. 24-23 million years ago).Hugueney ''et al.'' (2003)
Population
See also
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Communes of the Allier department
The following is a list of the 317 communes of the Allier department of France.
Intercommunalities
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Town hall website