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Auvergne terrain map. Auvergne is known for its mountain ranges and dormant volcanoes. Together the Monts Dore and the Chaîne des Puys include 80 volcanoes. The Puy de Dôme is the highest volcano in the region, with an altitude of 1,465 metres (4,806 ft).
Christianized by Saint Austremoine, Auvergne was quite prosperous during the Roman period. After a short time under the Visigoths, it was conquered by the Franks in 507. During the earlier medieval period, Auvergne was a county within the duchy of Aquitaine and from time to time part of the "Angevin Empire".
Quickly, in the Auvergne mountains, 10,000 men were assembled under Coulaudon's command at the three hideouts. [14] After repelling an initial attack on 2 June, on 10 June, the 2,700 maquisards at Mont Mouchet were attacked by elements of two German columns from Brioude, Saugues and Saint-Flour, under the command of Kurt Jesser. The resistants ...
Haute-Loire is a department in south central France and is part of the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The capital and largest town in the department is Le Puy-en-Velay . To the north of Haute-Loire lie Puy-de-Dôme and Loire , to the east lies Ardèche , to the south lies Lozère and to the west lies Cantal .
Averoigne is a fictional counterpart of a historical province in France, detailed in a series of short stories by the American writer Clark Ashton Smith. Smith may have based Averoigne on the actual province of Auvergne , [ 1 ] but its name was probably influenced by the French department of Aveyron , immediately south of Auvergne, due to the ...
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Usson ( French pronunciation: [ysɔ̃] ) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France .
Ray Glansberg, 102, of Port St. Lucie and Sydney Edson, 100, of Lake Worth Beach, served during the 1944 D-Day invasion that turned the tide of war.
Souvigny (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Allier department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France.. Today the main town of a canton of the Allier department, Souvigny has long been one of the major towns in the Bourbonnais (of which it was once the capital), and the royal House of Bourbon was based there.