This is a list of the 130
departments
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
(french: link=no, départements), the conventional name for the administrative subdivisions of the
First French Empire at the height of its territorial extent, circa 1811.
Note that the
Illyrian Provinces were also part of France, but were not organised into departments, and so are not included in this list. Similarly, four additional French departments were also created in
Catalonia (annexed from Spain in 1812); their juridical status remained incomplete until the French lost their grip on Spain in 1814. Those departments were:
Bouches-de-l'Èbre,
Montserrat
Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with roughly of coastline. It is n ...
,
Sègre, and
Ter
Ter or TER may refer to:
Places
* River Ter, in Essex, England
* Ter (river), in Catalonia
* Ter (department), a region in France
* Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy
* Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno o ...
.
List
The names of departments formed from territories annexed to France after 1791 have been colour-coded as follows:
Moreover, the
Tanaro department was established in 1802 and disbanded in 1805; it was one of the six original ''départments'' which took the place of the
Subalpine Republic
The Subalpine Republic was a short-lived republic that existed between 1800 and 1802 on the territory of Piedmont during its military rule by Napoleonic France.
History
Piedmont was the main part of the Kingdom of Sardinia which, despite i ...
. Its territory was divided between the three ''départments'' of
Marengo,
Stura
Stura was a department of the French Consulate and of the First French Empire in present-day Italy. It was named after the river Stura di Demonte. It was formed in 1802, when the Subalpine Republic (formerly the mainland portion of the Kingdo ...
, and
Montenotte (the latter was created after the annexation of the
Ligurian Republic).
External links
Descriptions of the departments in French
{{Annexed departments of the First French Empire
Former departments of France
Subdivisions of the First French Empire