Gergovie (France)
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- GEOnet names server, Apr. 12, 2000(Gergovie: PPL 45°43ʹ00ʺN, 3°08ʹ00ʺE; no other PPL with same name listed in France; cross-reference from Merdogne)
- Texier, Y. La question de Gergovie, 1999:p. 15 (decree of 11 Jan. 1865 changed name of village of Merdogne to Gergovie) p. 26 (since Napoleon III, Gergovie is toponym of 3 distinct though neighboring sites: summit of the plateau itself, on which the ancient Gallic town was presumed to be; farm of Gergoye, on bottom of southeast slope; in middle of southern slope, a bit to east, former village of Merdogne)
- Texier, Y. La question de Gergovie, 1999:p. 15 (decree of 11 Jan. 1865 changed name of village of Merdogne to Gergovie) p. 26 (since Napoleon III, Gergovie is toponym of 3 distinct though neighboring sites: summit of the plateau itself, on which the ancient Gallic town was presumedto be; farm of Gergoye, on bottom of southeast slope; in middle of southern slope, a bit to east, former village of Merdogne)
- GEOnet names server, Apr. 12, 2000(Gergovie: PPL 45p0s43ʹ00ʺN, 3p0s08ʹ00ʺE; no other PPL with same name listed in France; cross-reference from Merdogne)
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Wikipedia description:
Gergovie (in auvergnat Gergòia; until 1865 Merdogne) is a French village in the commune of La Roche-Blanche in the Puy-de-Dôme département, a few kilometres south of Clermont-Ferrand. It is situated at the foot of the Gergovie plateau, the official but disputed site of the Battle of Gergovia, where, near the Arverni oppidum of Nemossos (a sacred wood, in Gaulish), the Arverni and other Gallic tribes gathered under Vercingetorix's command to fight the Roman legions of Julius Caesar in 52 BC. The village was known as Merdogne until 1865, when it successfully petitioned Emperor Napoleon III to change the name to Gergovie because the site of the Gauls' victory over Caesar deserved a more glorious name than one that resembled a vulgarity (merde).
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