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Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine (ACAL or less commonly, ALCA) is a future French administrative region in northeastern France, resulting from territorial reform in 2014, that will supersede the current Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne, and Lorraine regions on 1 January 2016. Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine is a provisional name, created by hyphenating the merged regions in alphabetical order; its regional council, which will be elected in December 2015, must approve a new name for the region by 1 July 2016, which then must be approved by France's Conseil d'État.〔 ACAL is the only region in which the territorial reform legislation specifies the seat of the regional council, which will be Strasbourg. ==Toponymy== ===Provisional name=== The provisional name of the region is Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine, which is formed by combining the names of the three present regions—Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne, and Lorraine—in alphabetical order with hyphens. The formula for the provisional name of the region was established by the territorial reform law and applies to all but one of the provisional names for new regions. The ACAL regional council, which will be elected in December 2015, must choose a name for the region and submit it to the Conseil d'État—France's highest authority for administrative law—by 1 July 2016 for approval. The Conseil d'État then has until 1 October 2016 to issue a decree officially recognizing the names of the new regions.〔〔(Quel nom pour la nouvelle région ? Vous avez choisi... ), Sud-Ouest, 4 December 2014, accessed 2 January 2015〕 In Lorraine, the new region has frequently been called ALCA, for Alsace-Lorraine-Champagne-Ardennes, on the internet. ===Permanent name=== In a poll conducted in November 2014 by France 3 in Champagne-Ardenne, ''Grand Est'' (29.16%) and ''Austrasie'' (22.65%) were the top two names among 25 candidates and 4701 votes. Grand Est also topped a poll the following month conducted by L'Est Republicaine, receiving 42% of 3324 votes. Among the names which have received a moderate amount of discussion are: * is a term used to refer to the northeast quarter of Metropolitan France, although this term refers to a geographic region larger than just ACAL. The term has been commonly used and has topped the polls mentioned above. *''Grand Est Europe'' (Great East Europe) is a variant of Grand Est that alludes to the region being a gateway to Europe both through trade and since Strasbourg is home to several European institutions (which makes it one of the three unofficial capitals of the European Union). However, the name has been mocked for how it could suggest that the region is in Eastern Europe. *''Austrasie'' (Austrasia),〔〔 which refers to a historic region spanning parts of present-day northeast France, the Benelux, and northwest Germany. *''Quatre frontiers'' (Four Frontiers), which refers to the region's border with four countries, has also been discussed.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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