Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Administration
Country	France
Region	Rhône-Alpes
Department	Savoie
Arrondissement	Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Canton	Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Intercommunality	Cœur de Maurienne
Mayor	Roland Merloz (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	489–1,200 m (1,604–3,900 ft) (avg. 566 m/1,857 ft)
Land area1	11.51 km2 (4.44 sq mi)
Population2	9,186  (2006)
- Density	798 /km2 (2,070 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	73248/ 73300
Website	http://www.saintjeandemaurienne.fr/
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 45°16′22″N 6°20′54″E / 45.272889°N 6.348444°E / 45.272889; 6.348444

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (Italian: San Giovanni di Moriana) is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.

It lies in the Maurienne, the valley of the River Arc. It was also an episcopal see of Savoy during the Ancien Régime and again from 1825 to 1966. Its original name was simply Maurienne, or Moriana in Italian and Latin.

History

The oldest possessions of the Counts of Savoy were the countships of Maurienne, Savoy proper (the district between Arc, Isère, and the middle course of the Rhone), and Belley, with Bugey as its chief town.

The Duchy of Savoy, which had been a French-speaking province under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, was invaded by Revolutionary France, but restored to Piedmont in 1815. It became part of France in 1859, after the Second Italian War of Independence.

The town was reached by the Aix-les-Bains—Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne railway in 1857.

Twin towns

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is twinned with:

• Bad Wildungen, Germany
• Dzolo, Togo
• Tessalit, Mali
• Giaveno, Italy

See also

• Opinel knife
• Col de la Croix de Fer
• Agreement of St.-Jean-de-Maurienne
• Communes of the Savoie department

References

• INSEE
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.  [1] & passim
• Besson, Memoires pour l'histoire ecclésiastique des diocèses de Genève, Tantaise, Aoste et Maurienne, Nancy, 1739; new ed. Moutiers, 1871

External links

• Town council website
• Picture of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Cathedral