Lyon
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- Names
Lugdunenses
Lyon
Lyons
Lyón
Lugdunum
Lugdunum Galliae
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Residence of Roman emperors; sacked by Huns and Visigoths; taken by Saracens in the 8th century; incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire in 1032; united to the French crown in 1312; prospered in the 16th century but declined during the wars of religion; scene of revolts in the 19th century.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Atlas of Greek & Roman World (1981); Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-); Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983); Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1990); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998); MacKendrick, Roman France (1971); Mathisen, Geography of Roman Gaul [online] (1996); Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984); Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979); Times Atlas of the World (1994)...
- Born
Jean Audran (French, 1667-1756)
- Died
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