Haute Loire
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Haute Loire is a department in south imperative France named after the Loire River. Haute Loire is part of the contemporary area of Auvergne Rhone Alpes and is surrounded via the departments of Loire, Ardeche, Lozere, Cantal and Puy de Dome. The populations of the department are called Altiligeriens English Altiligerians. The branch covers the top reaches of the Loire and includes the Loire Valley and the surrounding mountains within the Massif Central. It is one of the authentic 83 departments of France created in 1790 at some point of the French Revolution. Parts of the branch are included inside the Livradois Forez Regional Natural Park.
The first known population of this location had been hunter gatherers and it turned into later occupied by way of pastoralists, shepherds residing in caves or easy huts. It later came below the manipulate of a Gaulish tribe referred to as Vellavi and at the time of Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, this vicinity lay on the border of Gallia Narbonensis. The regions have become a Roman province in 121 BC, initially under the call Gallia Transalpina Transalpine Gaul. The name outstanding it from Cisalpine Gaul on the near aspect of the Alps to Rome.