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Encyclopedia > Belley

Belley is a commune in the French département of Ain. The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties. ... AIN is the Computer Reservation System code for Aintree railway station, United Kingdom. ...


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Belley - LoveToKnow 1911 (194 words)
BELLEY, a town of eastern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Ain, 52 m.
It is situated on vine-covered hills at the southern extremity of the Jura, 3 m.
Belley is the seat of a bishopric and a prefect, and has a tribunal of first instance.
Belley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (546 words)
The Diocese of Belley (Bellicium) is coextensive with the civil department of Ain and a suffragan of the Archbishopric of Besançon.
Although suppressed at the time of the Napoleonic Concordat, the diocese of Belley was re-established in 1822 and took from the Archdiocese of Lyons the arrondissements of Belley, Bourg, Nantua and Trévoux, and from the Archdiocese of Chambéry the arrondissement of Gex.
Local tradition maintains that Belley was evangelized in the second century by the martyrs Marcellus and Valerian, companions of St.
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