VIVARAIS

'Vivarais' (Occitan: ''Vivarés'') refers to a part of France:

★ a traditional region in the south-est of the country, covering the ''département'' of Ardèche, named after its capital Viviers on the river Rhône. In feudal times part of the Holy Roman Empire with its bishop as a count, it became in 1309 one of the Capetian territories as included in Languedoc province of the French realm

★ the wine region Côtes du Vivarais AOC established in 1999 near Côtes du Rhône in several communes of the south of ''département'' Ardèche and a few in northern Gard.

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