Asnières-lès-Dijon (French pronunciation: [ɑnjɛʁ lɛ diʒɔ̃]; literally "Asnières near Dijon") is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

[3] [3] After the defeat of France in 1870-1871, Dijon was chosen with Langres, Besançon, Reims, Laon, and La Fère to be a "second line" of the Séré de Rivières system of defence (the first line being focused on Verdun, Toul, Epinal, and Belfort).

A series of forts and military redoubts centred on Dijon city were built from 1875 to 1883: la Motte-Giron, Mont-Afrique, Hauteville, Asnières, Norges, Var, Saint-Apollinaire, and Sennecey-lès-Dijon.

Azure, an ear of wheat and a bunch of grapes, stalked and leaved all in Or, isuuant from a crescent of Argent; in chief Gules charged with a crosslet bottony of Or.

List of Successive Mayors[4] The inhabitants of the commune are known as Asniérois or Asniéroises in French.