Athe Cte-dOr

Athée (French pronunciation: [ate] ) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France. The name Athée comes from the Latin Attegiae, meaning "huts" or "Shepherd's cabins" which constituted the original village. The oldest mention of Athée recognised by the majority of historians was in 679 in a Charter of the Cartulary of the Abbey Saint-Bénigne of Dijon. The first phase of the LGV Rhin-Rhône (140 km long) between Villers-les-Pots and Petit-Croix (Territoire de Belfort), opened in 2011, traverses the commune but there is no station. The nearest railway stations are at Villers/Pots (3 km) and Tillenay station at Auxonne (5 km), both on the Dij on Vallorbe line. The commune is located on the Bresse Graben in the Saône Plain and the soil is sandy clay.