Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (Italian: San Giovanni di Moriana) is a commune in the
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Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.
It lies in the Maurienne, the valley of the River Arc. It was also an episcopal see of Savoy during the Ancien Régime and again from 1825 to 1966. Its original name was simply Maurienne, or Moriana in Italian and Latin.
History
The oldest possessions of the Counts of Savoy were the countships of Maurienne, Savoy proper (the district between Arc, Isère, and the middle course of the Rhone), and Belley, with Bugey as its chief town.
The Duchy of Savoy, which had been a French-speaking province under the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont, was invaded by Revolutionary France, but restored to Piedmont in 1815. It became part of France in 1859, after the Second Italian War of Independence.
The town was reached by the Aix-les-Bains—Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne railway in 1857.
Twin towns
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is twinned with:
