Burgundy
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Burgundy. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a region of western Europe, so named from the Burgundians, a Teutonic or Germanic people originally from the country between the Oder and the Vistula. They migrated first to the region of the upper Rhine, and, in the beginning of the 5th century, passed into Gaul and obtained possession of the S. E. part of the country, where they founded a kingdom having its seat of government sometimes at Lyons and sometimes at Geneva. They were at last wholly subdued by the Franks. In 879 Boson, Count of Autun, succeeded in establishing the royal dignity again in part of this kingdom. He styled himself King of Provence, and had his residence at Arles. His son, Louis, added the country beyond the Jura, and thus established Cisjuran Burgundy. A second kingdom arose when Rudolph of Strettlingen formed Upper or Transjuran Burgundy out of part of Switzerland and Savoy. Both these Burgundian kingdoms were united, and finally, on the extinction of Rudolph's line, were incorporated with Germany. But a third State, the historical DUCHY OF BUR- GUNDY, consisting principally of the French province of Bourgogne or Burgundy, had been formed as a great feudal and almost independent province of France in the 9th century. This first ducal line died out with a Duke Philip, and the duchy, reverting to the crown, was, in 1363, granted by King John France to his son, Philip the Bold, who thus became the founder of a new line of Dukes of Burgundy. A marriage with Margaret, daughter of Louis III., Count of Flanders, brought him Flaners, Mechlin, Antwerp and Francheders, Comté. He was succeeded by his son, Duke John the Fearless, whose son successor, Philip the Good, so greatly extended his dominions that, on his death, in 1467, his son Charles, surnamed the Bold, though possessing only the title of Duke, was in reality one of the richest and most powerful sovereigns of Europe. Charles left a daughter, Mary of Burgundy, the sole heiress of his States, who by her marriage to Maximilian Austria transferred a large part of her dominions to that Prince, while Louis XI., of France, acquired Burgundy proper as a male fief of France. Burgundy then formed a province, and is now represented by the four departe-etments of Yonne, Côte-d'Or, Saône-et- Loire, and Ain. It is watered by a number of navigable rivers, and is one of the most productive provinces in France, especially of wines.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a province of France noted for its red wines. Historically Burgundy is the home of the Burgundians, a German people occupying the valleys of the Loire and the upper Rhone. The seat of the Burgundian kingdom was at Lyon or Geneva. The Burgundians were at war frequently with the Franks, and were several times subdued only to reassert their independence. Under Philip the Bold and Charles the Bold, extensive territory was acquired as far north as Holland. It was only shortly before the discovery of America that it was decided that France should absorb Burgundy, and not Burgundy, France. See France ; Champagne 2026 Editor's Note: Burgundy became the most closely mapped wine region on earth. Centuries of monks noting which slope ripened differently produced the climats — hundreds of individually named plots, some barely an acre — inscribed by UNESCO in 2015 as the birthplace of the whole idea of terroir. Its dukes, meanwhile, once rivaled the kings of France in wealth and nearly built a rival state. (Ed: BR 2026-06-21)