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Dijon

Dijon (UK: , US: , French: [diʒɔ̃] (listen)) is a city in eastern France, capital of the Côte-d'Or département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period. Dijon later became a Roman settlement named Divio, located on the road from Lyon to Paris. The province was home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th centuries and Dijon was a place of tremendous wealth and power, one of the great European centres of art, learning and science. Population (2008): 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 (2007) for the greater Dijon area. The city has retained varied architectural styles from many of the main periods of the past millennium, including Capetian, … more »