Institution
Département
A département is an administrative division of France created in 1790 to replace the old provinces with uniform units. The French Empire extended the system to conquered lands and to Algeria after 1848. The term 'department' also describes specialised administrative bodies in other states, such as the departments of the Ottoman Empire's central bureaucracy and the three departments of the Tang Dynasty government.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Département. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/departement
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- “Département.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/departement. Accessed .
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- The Epoch Institute. “Département.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/departement.
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- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Département’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/departement (Accessed: ).
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