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Faucigny

Field	Value
name	Faucigny
commune status	Commune
image	Faucigny 2009.JPG
caption	View of Faucigny from the castle
image coat of arms	Blason Faucigny.svg
arrondissement	Bonneville
canton	Bonneville
INSEE	74122
postal code	74130
mayor	Barthélémy Gonzalez-Rodriguez
term	2020–2026
intercommunality	CC des Quatre Rivières
coordinates
elevation min m	477
elevation max m	1002
area km2	4.91
population
population date
population footnotes
native name	Feûfnyi (Savoyard)
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Faucigny (; ; ) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

Historically, Faucigny was a region in Savoy which included the area of the modern département of Haute Savoie and the municipalities of Chamonix, Argentière, and Les Houches.

Geography

In the Faucigny region, the river Arve flows through the low-lying, agricultural Arve Valley. The village of Faucigny is at an elevation of approximately 639 m., northeast of La Roche-sur-Foron, and about 20 km. southeast of the city of Geneva. The village lies on a river terrace on the eastern side of the Arve Valley.

History

The fertile valley of the Arve and the area around Faucigny were already settled in Neolithic times, and there are numerous Roman ruins. Legend suggests that the area was the estates of the Roman family Falcinius. It was known by various names in the Middle Ages: Falciniacum, Fociniacum and Fossiniacum, but the first documented name was Fulciniaco. Around 930 a castle was built on a rocky promontory overlooking the Arve. The castle was the regional governmental seat from the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries. The barons of Faucigny dominated the valley of the Arve and its tributary the Giffre, the Arly as far as Flumet, and the valley of Doron de Beaufort (Beaufortain). During this time, suzerainty over Faucigny was contested between the House of Savoy and the Dauphin de Viennois. In 1253, Pierre II of Savoy acquired Faucigny by marrying Agnès, the daughter of the Baron de Faucigny. Their daughter, Béatrix, inherited the province in 1268. Béatrix married Guigues VII and the lands came under the Dauphin de Viennois. Savoy fought to regain the Faucigny region, but was unsuccessful and Faucigny became part of France in 1349 as part of the purchase from Humbert II de La Tour du Pin, Dauphin de Viennois of the Dauphiné lands. Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, challenged this purchase and defeated the French in 1354. Then Faucigny was transferred to the House of Savoy as part of the peace Treaty of Paris (1355). Recently Faucigny has come up in the news again as twelve cars were burned in the 2005 French riots.

Twin towns — sister cities

Faucigny is twinned with:

Italy Camandona, Italy (2011)

References

Collectif (1998), Découvrir l'Histoire de la Savoie, Centre de la Culture Savoyarde
Dictionnaire d'Amboise. Pays de Savoie. Editions Amboise. 1989. 2e édition

References

(9 August 2021). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires".

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