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Meaning & History
From the ethnonym for the Burgundians, an East Germanic people who moved westwards beyond the Rhine during the late Roman period.English form of Bourgogne, a region in east-central France once occupied by a Duchy, and later by the House of Habsburg. It was combined with the former region of Franche-Comté to create Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.