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Chambéry
Columbia Encyclopedia entry: Chambéry
ChambéryshäNbārē', town (1990 pop. 55,603), capital of Savoie dept., E France, in the Alpine trough. It is a communications and commerce center as well as a railway and air transport hub. Manufactures include metals and construction materials. An archiepiscopal see from the 5th cent., it was the capital of Savoy from 1232 to 1562. Among its old edifices is a 16th-century cathedral.

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Chambéry is commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is the capital of the department and has been the historical capital of the Savoy region since the 13th century, when Amadeus V of Savoy made it his seat of power. Chambéry was founded at crossroads of ancient routes through the Dauphiné, Burgundy, Switzerland, and Italy, in a valley between the Bauges and the Chartreuse Mountains on the Leysse River. The metropolitan area has more than 125,000 inhabitants, extending from the vineyard slopes of the Combe de Savoie, almost to the shores of the Lac du Bourget, the largest natural lake in France. The...more »
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  • Savoie

    Savoie, department (1990 pop. 351,400), SE France, bordering Italy. Chambéry is the capital.

  • Savoy

    Savoy, Fr. Savoie, Alpine region of E France. The boundaries of old Savoy have changed with time, but presently the region comprises the departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie. It is bounded o...

  • Savoy, house of

    Savoy, house of, dynasty of Western Europe that ruled Savoy and Piedmont from the 11th cent., the kingdom of Sicily from 1714 to 1718, the kingdom of Sardinia from 1720 to 1861, and the kingdo...

  • Rousseau, Jean Jacques

    Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 1712–78, Swiss-French philosopher, author, political theorist, and composer. Rousseau was born at Geneva, the son of a Calvinist watchmaker. His mother died shortly aft...

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