Champagne (Concert of Europe)

Champagne is a landlocked province of, in the northeast of the country. It borders to its east,  and  to its north,  and  to its west,  to its south and  to its southeast. Champagne was named after the Italian region of by its first foreign visitors, the Roman legionnaires. Later, it became a powerful county during the Middle Ages before being incorporated into the French state.

Champagne is a land of rolling hills and sparse forests: it is best known for the sparkling white wine of the same name that is produced here. Largely agricultural, Champagne has been touched by industrialization only in its largest urban centres. It is also the largest French province by size. Also, it was from this region that the Arthurian myths were first written, by medieval scholar and trouvère Chrétien de Troyes.