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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".
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 .
They are mentioned as Arvernos by Caesar (mid-1st c. BC), [2] Arvernorum by Livy (late-1st c. BC), [3] A̓roúernoi (Ἀρούερνοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD), [4] and as A̓rouernō͂n (Ἀρουερνῶν) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD). [5] [6] The ethnonym Arverni is a latinized form of Gaulish *Aruernoi (sing. *Aruernos). Its etymology ...
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 ...
The first large contingent of Scots troops came to France in the autumn of 1419, some 6,000 men under the command of John Stewart, Earl of Buchan. [11] These men, strengthened from time to time by fresh volunteers, soon became an integral part of the French war effort, and by the summer of 1420 the "Army of Scotland" was a distinct force in the French royal service.
Until the French Revolution, Riom was the capital of the province of Auvergne, and the seat of the dukes of Auvergne. [4] The city was of Gaulish origin, the Roman Ricomagus . In the intensely feudalized Auvergne of the 10th century, the town grew up around the collegiate Church of Saint Amabilis (Saint Amable), the local saint, who was the ...