Champagne

Champagne, an ancient province of France, 180 m. long by 150 broad, annexed to the Crown 1286, and including the deps. of Aube, Haute-Marne, Marne, and Ardennes; the province where the wine of the name is principally manufactured.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)