Bourg-lès-Valence (; ) is a
commune 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 in southeastern France. It is a suburb of
Valence. The archaeologist and Hellenist
Fernand Courby
Fernand Henri Fabien Courby (19 January 1878 – 6 March 1932) was a French archaeologist and Hellenist, a specialist of ancient Greece, a member of the French School at Athens (class 1905), and professor at the Faculté des lettres of the Unive ...
(1878–1932) was born in Bourg-lès-Valence.
In 2014–2019, Bourg-lès-Valence was twinned with the town of
Shusha
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(Shushi) of the de facto independent
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
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, but de jure part of
Azerbaijan
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. In 2019, the administrative court of
Grenoble
Grenoble ( ; ; or ; or ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Isère Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region ...
declared the partnership treaty null and void due to the municipality having exceeded its power by unilaterally signing it and France's non-recognition of the de facto state.
[Ara Toranian]
Le tribunal administratif de Grenoble annule 4 chartes d’amitié
Nouvelles d'Arménie. 13 June 2019.
Population
See also
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Communes of the Drôme department
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** List of comm ...
References
Communes of Drôme
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