Alise-Sainte-Reine
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Location within Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region
Alise-Sainte-Reine
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| Coordinates: 47°32′15″N 4°29′27″E / 47.5375°N 4.4908°ECoordinates: 47°32′15″N 4°29′27″E / 47.5375°N 4.4908°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
| Department | Côte-d'Or |
| Arrondissement | Montbard |
| Canton | Venarey-les-Laumes |
| Intercommunality | Pays d'Alésia et de la Seine |
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| • Mayor (2008–2020) | Laurent Maillard |
| Area1 | 3.83 km2 (1.48 sq mi) |
| Population (2009)2 | 624 |
| • Density | 160/km2 (420/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 21008 / 21150 |
| Elevation | 237–407 m (778–1,335 ft) (avg. 344 m or 1,129 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Alise-Sainte-Reine (Alise-Ste-Reine) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alisiens or Alisiennes.
Alise-Sainte-Reine is located some 17 km south-east of Montbard and 50 km north-west of Dijon. The D905 from Venarey-les-Laumes to Posanges in the south passes through the western part of the commune. Access to the village however is on the D103, D103J, and D103T from Venaray-les-Laumes in the west which continues east to join the D10 road. Apart from the village the commune consists of farmland with some forest and a horse racing track in the west.
The Ozeraine river forms most of the southern border of the commune and flows west to join the Brenne west of the commune.
Because of its identification with Alesia the origin of the name of Alise-Sainte-Reine has been the subject of numerous studies. Several ideas have been proposed for a root of *alis and three proposals have attracted the attention of linguists and toponymists:
These points were confirmed by Jacques Lacroix in his study of the god of Alise: Alisanos.
Research on alisier remains largely unfinished despite numerous attempts to develop the subject.
The theme of the oronyme *alis or *ales meaning "rocky height" is the one that is currently most frequently put forward to explain the name of Alesia. It is from an Indo-European root *palis or *pales, the initial [p] became silent in Celtic, while on the contrary it remains in Latin place names such as Palatinus (Palatine Hill) for example. In Germanic the Indo-European [p] was mute [f] which gives *falisa in lower Old Frankish, felisa in Old High German or the German Fels meaning "rock". A number of researchers also believe that the term may be suitable for a site in Alise-Sainte-Reine that has cliffs.
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