Arpitania

Map of "Arpitania", showing place names in "Arpitan". The inset illustrates the two isolated towns of Faeto and Celle di San Vito in the Province of Foggia, Apulia region of southern Italy, where Franco-Provençal is also spoken.
"Flag of Arpitania" with "Sun of the Alps" motif combined with the "stars of Europe" (Aliance Culturèla Arpitanna[1])

Arpitania (Arpitan and Italian: Arpitania, French: Arpitanie) is a term which denotes the purported ethnic or cultural unity of the Western Alps, represented by speakers of Franco-Provençal (termed Arpitan).

"Arpitania" roughly corresponds to the historical County of Savoy and its successor state the Duchy of Savoy:

  1. ^ online use reported in 2014. Manuel Meune in: Ex(tra)territorial: Reassessing Territory in Literature, Culture and Languages / Les Territoires littéraires, culturels et linguistiques en question, Didier Lassalle, Dirk Weissmann (eds.), 2014, p. 278.