Doire department

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Doire is the name of a department of the First Empire in what is now Italy. It was named after the Dora Baltea river . Doire was founded when Napoleon occupied the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1802, the capital being Ivrea . It was divided into the three arrondissements of Ivrea, Aosta and Chivasso . After Napoleon's defeat in the Wars of Liberation in 1814, the Doire department was dissolved; the former area is now divided between the metropolitan city of Turin and the autonomous region of Aosta Valley .