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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 208 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:south-eastern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of DrBme, 43 M. E.S.E. of See also:Valence on the See also:Paris-See also:Lyon railway. Pop. (1906) 3090. The town is situated in a See also:plain enclosed by mountains on the right See also:bank of the DrBme below its confluence with the Meyrosse, which supplies See also:power to some of the See also:industries. The most interesting structures of Die are the old See also:cathedral, with a See also:porch of the 11th See also:century supported on See also:granite columns from an See also:ancient See also:temple of See also:Cybele; and the See also:Porte St See also:Marcel, a See also:Roman gateway flanked by massive towers. The Roman remains also include the ruins of aqueducts and altars. Die is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect, and of a tribunal of first instance. The manufactures are See also:silk, See also:furniture, See also:cloth, See also:lime and See also:cement, and there are See also:flour and saw See also:mills. See also:Trade is in See also:timber, especially See also:walnut, and in See also:white See also:wine known as clairette de Die. The mulberry is largely grown for the rearing of silkworms. Under the See also:Romans, Die (Dea See also:Augusta Vocontiorum) was an important See also:colony.

It was formerly the seat of a bishopric, See also:

united to that of Valence from 1276 to 1687 and suppressed in 1790. Previous to the revocation of the See also:edict of See also:Nantes in 1685 it had a Calvinistic university.

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