The Savoy region |
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The Savoy region |
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| Historic-geographic region in South Eastern
France situated in the Western Alps, between the lake of Geneva and the Rhone: it
has a surface of 10786 sq. Km and an essentially mountainous territory. Since its
annexation to France, the Savoy region has been divided into two districts: the Savoy and
the High Savoy. |
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It was conquered by the Romans in 121 b.c. It was granted to
the Burgundi in 443 and was then occupied by the Francs in 534 and therefore included in
the Kingdom of Burgundy since the IX – XI century. About the year 1000 it became a princedom around the county of Umberto of Biancamano, the founder of the Savoy dynasty. The Duchy of Savoy, since 1416, became a province of Piedmont state and then of Sardinia since the XVI century. It tried the annexation with France in 1792, but the congress of Vienna in 1815 gave it
back to the king of Sardinia; it was then ceded to France in 1860. |
