Lyonnais
Lyonnais | |
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Languages: | forézien , lyonnais |
Capital: | Lyon |
Religion: | Christianity , ( Catholicism ) |
The Lyonnais ( Arpitan Liyonês ) is a historical province of France , which is today in the Rhône department and partly belongs to the metropolis of Lyon .
history
The Lyonnais itself was divided into three provinces:
- The Plat pays de Lyonnais corresponds to today's landscape designation Monts du Lyonnais . The adjective plat (actually: even, flat) does not designate the relief of this low mountain range, but the fact that this province was not viewed as privileged and was subject to the waistline for tax purposes .
- The city of Lyon that did not succumb to the waist.
- The Franc-Lyonnais , a small, tax-free province in the north of Lyon on the banks of the Saône .
Two other provinces of the Lyonnais formed the "government district of Lyonnais" ( le gouvernement du Lyonnais ):
Between 1754 and 1756 the province was struck by an insect that claimed over 30 deaths; it received the name of the beast from the Lyonnais .
geography
The dominant mountains in the Monts du Lyonnais are the Malherbe ridge at 946 m and the height of Saint-André at 934 m. There are also a few hills above the communes of Larajasse and Saint-Martin-en-Haut .
gallery
Map of France with the marker des Lyonnais.
Web links
Commons : Lyonnais - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ read under Bête du Lyonnais