Ain

Ain is a branch named after the Ain River at the jap edge of France. It is part of the Auvergne Rhone Alpes area and bordered via the rivers Saone and Rhone. Ain is composed of four geographically unique regions which each with its personal traits contribute to the variety and the dynamic monetary development of the department. In the Bresse agriculture and agro enterprise are dominated by way of the cultivation of cereals, cattle breeding, milk and cheese manufacturing in addition to fowl farming.

In the Dombes, pisciculture assumes more significance as does wine making in the Bugey. The first inhabitants settled inside the territory of modern Ain approximately 15000 BC. The Menhir of Pierrefiche in Simandre sur Suran dates from the mid Neolithic era within the 4th or 3rd millennium BC it is the sole enhir in Burgundy. The past due 2nd century BC Calendar of Coligny bears the longest surviving Gaulish inscription. In the year 58 BC Julius Caesar army motion against the Helvetians advancing via Gaul on the territory of today Ain marked the start of the Gallic Wars.