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France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. It also includes overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
- Vichy French
Vichy France (French: Régime de Vichy; 10 July 1940 – 9...
- List of heads of state
List of heads of state of France. Monarchs ruled the Kingdom...
- Vichy French
Bella Bellow, de son vrai nom Georgette Nafiatou Adjoavi Bellow, née le 1er janvier 1945 à Tsévié et morte accidentellement le 10 décembre 1973 à Lilikopé (village situé entre Tsévié et Agbélouvé ), est une auteure-compositrice-interprète togolaise . Dès son enfance, son talent pour la musique et sa voix sont remarqués à la ...
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1982–2015
The term région was officially created by the Law of Decentralisation(2 March 1982), which also gave regions their legal status. The first direct elections for regional representatives took place on 16 March 1986. Between 1982 and 2015, there were 22 regions in Metropolitan France. Before 2011, there were four overseas regions (French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion); in 2011 Mayottebecame the fifth.
Reform and mergers of regions
In 2014, the French parliament passed a law reducing the number of metropolitan regions from 22 to 13 effective 1 January 2016. The law gave interim names for most of the new regions by combining the names of the former regions, e.g. the region composed of Aquitaine, Poitou-Charentes and Limousin was temporarily called Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes. However, the combined region of Upper and Lower Normandy is simply called "Normandy" (Normandie). Permanent names were proposed by the new...
Regions lack separate legislative authority and therefore cannot write their own statutory law. They levy their own taxes and, in return, receive a decreasing[clarification needed] part of their budget from the central government, which gives them a portion of the taxes it levies. They also have considerable budgets managed by a regional council (c...
Overseas region (French: Région d'outre-mer) is a recent designation, given to the overseas departments that have similar powers to those of the regions of metropolitan France. As integral parts of the French Republic, they are represented in the National Assembly, Senate and Economic and Social Council, elect a Member of the European Parliament (M...
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Etimología. Aplicado originalmente a todo el Imperio franco, el nombre de Francia proviene de su homónimo en latín Francia, o «reino de los francos». [16] El nombre de los francos está relacionado con la palabra inglesa frank («libre»): esta última procede del francés antiguo franc («libre, noble, sincero»), en última instancia del latín medieval francus («libre, exento de ...
France ( /ˈfræns/ (help·info) or /ˈfrɑːns/; French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃s] ), officially the French Republic (French: République française, French pronunciation: [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz] ), is a country in Western Europe. It also includes various departments and territories of France overseas.
