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Encyclopedia Britannica



DIE

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 208 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DIE , a town of
south
 -eastern France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of DrBme, 43 M. E.S.E. of Valence on the Paris-Lyon railway. Pop. (1906) 3090. The town is situated in a plain enclosed by mountains on the right bank of the DrBme below its confluence with the Meyrosse, which supplies power to some of the
industries
 . The most interesting structures of Die are the old
cathedral
 , with a porch of the 11th
century
  supported on granite columns from an ancient temple of Cybele; and the Porte St Marcel, a Roman gateway flanked by massive towers. The Roman remains also include the ruins of aqueducts and altars. Die is the seat of a sub-prefect, and of a tribunal of first instance. The manufactures are
silk
 , furniture,
cloth
 , lime and cement, and there are flour and saw mills.
Trade
  is in timber, especially
walnut
 , and in
white
  wine known as clairette de Die. The mulberry is largely grown for the rearing of silkworms. Under the Romans, Die (Dea Augusta Vocontiorum) was an important colony. It was formerly the seat of a bishopric, united to that of Valence from 1276 to 1687 and suppressed in 1790. Previous to the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685 it had a Calvinistic university.


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