Ligue Savoisienne (Separatist movement, Savoy, France)

Last modified: 2003-06-14 by ivan sache
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• Rregionalist and separatist movements in Savoy
• Ligue Savoisienne

See also:

• France
• Savoie (Traditional province, France)

Regionalist and separatist movements

Historically, there have been three main regionalist/separatist movements in Savoy:

• The Mouvement Région Savoie, founded in 1971, is regionalist but not independentist.
• The movement La Région Savoie, j'y crois [I believe in Region Savoy] was founded in 1999 by local politicians and is asking for the formation of a Region Savoy separated from the Region Rhône-Alpes.
• The Ligue Savoisienne was founded recently on the model of the Italian Northern League, and is asking for independence and rejection of the annexation treaty to France of 1865.

Ivan Sache, 27 April 2002

The flag of Savoy is shown on the Flags of Aspirant Peoples chart [eba94], #64, with the following caption:

SAVOY (Savoia)
Italians
South-East France

Savoy is the geographical origin of the Savoia House which reigned over Italy, but the region was incorporated to France in 1860, and its inhabitants do not consi