Avignon (France)
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Name (Hebrew)
אביניון (צרפת)
Name (Latin)
Avignon (France)
Other forms of name
Avenio (France)
Avenio Cavarum (France)
Aveniona (France)
Avenionis Urbs (France)
Avenneca Civitas (France)
Avennio (France)
Avinio (France)
Aviniona (France)
Avinionum (France)
Avinum (France)
Avio (France)
Aviona (France)
Avennica Civitas (France)
אוויניאן (צרפת)
Coordinates
E0044900 E0044900 N0435700 N0435700 (geonames )
001.8163640 001.8190620 047.5152230 047.5125250 (gooearth )
Associated country
France
See Also From tracing place name
Avignon (Papal city)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 43⁰57ʹ00ʺN 004⁰49ʹ00ʺE)
- Benoît, F. Avignon au double ... 1932.
- Orbis Latinus, 1972:I:191 (Avenio, Avenio Cavarum, Aveniona, Avenionensis, Avenionis urbs, Avenneca civ.,Avennica civ., Avenniensis, Avennio, Avinio, Aviniona, Avinionensis, Avinionum, Avinum, Avio, Aviona: Avignon, Hst. d. Dép. Vaucluse, Frankreich)
- Columbia encyc., c1993(Avignon, capital of Vaucluse dept., SE France, on the Rhône River; located in, but never a part of, the Comtat Venaissin, it was the papal see from 1309 to 1378 and the residence of several antipopes from 1378 to 1408 during the Great Schism; Pope Clement VI bought full title to Avignon from the countess of Provence in 1348; after the Great Schism Avignon was nominally ruled by papal legates but the citizens actually governed themselves; in 1791 after a plebiscite it was incorporated into France)