Difference between revisions of "Savoie Maritime"

The name ''Savoie'', originally a region of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France France], is a combination of the french verb "to know"; ''Savoir'', and the term for an intelligent or philosophical person; ''un Savant''. This is the name of a current department of France, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savoie Savoie], which at the time of the island's discovery was under Italian control under the name ''Savoia''. Being an island, along with the colonial style of the time, it only made sense to add the word '''Maritime''' was added to form '''Savoie Maritime'''