Bourg-lès-Valence (; oc, Lo Borg de Valença) is a

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in the

Drôme Drôme (; Occitan: ''Droma''; Arpitan: ''Drôma'') is the southernmost department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. Named after the river Drôme, it had a population of 516,762 as of 2019.

department in southeastern France. It is a suburb of Valence. The archaeologist and Hellenist

Fernand Courby Fernand Henri Fabien Courby (19 January 1878 – 6 March 1932) was a French archaeologist and Hellenist, a specialist of ancient Greece, a member of the French School at Athens (class 1905), and professor at the Faculté des lettres of the Unive ...

(1878–1932) was born in Bourg-lès-Valence. In 2014–2019, Bourg-lès-Valence was twinned with the town of

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(Shushi) of the de facto independent

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, but de jure part of

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. In 2019, the administrative court of

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declared the partnership treaty null and void due to the municipality having exceeded its power by unilaterally signing it and France's non-recognition of the de facto state.Ara Toranian
Le tribunal administratif de Grenoble annule 4 chartes d’amitié
Nouvelles d'Arménie. 13 June 2019.

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