Gerland (quarter)
Gerland may refer to: People * Saint Gerland of Agrigento (died 1100), bishop of Agrigento, Sicily * Gerland (mathematician), 11th-century English mathematician People with the surname * Georg Gerland (1833–1919), German anthropologist and geophysicist * Gunilla Gerland (born 1963), Swedish writer and activist * Hermann Gerland (born 1954), German football player and manager * Karl Gerland (1905–1945), Nazi leader Places * Gerland, Lyon, a quarter of Lyon, France * Gerland, Côte-d'Or, a commune in France * Parc de Gerland, a park in Lyon, France Other uses *Gerland Corporation Gerland Corporation was a retail company headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States; the company operates various grocery stores, gas stations, and check cashing stores within the Greater Houston Area. History A. J. Gerland founded the ''Ge ...

Gerland Of Agrigento
Saint Gerland of Agrigento ( it, San Gerlando di Agrigento), also known as Gerland of Besançon (d. 25 February 1100) was a bishop of Agrigento in Sicily. History Believed to have been a native of Besançon, he was a relative of the Norman Roger I of Sicily. After the expulsion of the Saracens from Sicily, in 1088 (or 1093) Roger summoned Gerland as the first post-Saracen bishop of Agrigento, to re-establish the church throughout the island. He was canonised in 1159. His relics In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tang ... are in a silver urn in Agrigento Cathedral, which has been dedicated to him since its rebuilding by bishop Bertaldo di Labro in 1305. His feast day is 25 February. References Sources and external links Santi e Beati: San Gerlando {{DEFAULTSORT: ...
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Gerland (mathematician)
Gerland was an 11th-century mathematician who flourished in England following the Norman Conquest. Little is known of his personal life. His treatise on the Computus may be found in the British Museum and his work on the abacus is preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S .... References 11th-century mathematicians Medieval English mathematicians 11th-century English writers 11th-century Latin writers {{UK-mathematician-stub ...
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Georg Gerland
Georg Cornelius Karl Gerland (29 January 1833, in Kassel – 16 February 1919, in Strasbourg) was a German anthropologist and geophysicist. He studied classical philology, Germanistics and anthropology at the universities of Berlin and Marburg. From 1856 to 1875 he successively worked as a gymnasium teacher in Kassel, Hanau, Magdeburg and Halle an der Saale, and in 1875 was named a professor of ethnology and geography at the University of Strasbourg. In 1900 he became director of the Imperial Central Bureau for Earthquake Research in Strasbourg. Gerland presented ideas of Germal seismologist Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz at the sixth International Geographic Conference in London in 1895, and organized the first International Conference of Seismology in Strasbourg in 1901. It  was the start of international cooperation in seismology and led to the founding two years later of the International Seismological Association (since 1951 the International Association of Seismology and ...
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Gunilla Gerland
Gunilla Gerland (born 1963) is a Swedish author and lecturer on the topic of autism. Biography Gunilla Gerland was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was abusive and eventually left her family, and her mother had alcoholism. Gerland left home at age 16, moved to Spain, and eventually returned to Stockholm. At age 29, she received a diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome. Her 1996 autobiography entitled ''A Real Person: Life on the Outside'' (original Swedish title: ''En Riktig Människa''), describes growing up with Asperger syndrome in an unsympathetic environment. After her autobiography was published, Gerland became an advocate and educator about autism. She also participated in research studies, and has been described as "one of the pioneers of autistic participation in research on autism" by Anne Stenning, writing for ''Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm'' in 2020. She continued to write, also lecture and debate on issues related to Asperger syndrome and the autism ...
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Hermann Gerland
Hermann "Tiger" Gerland (born 4 June 1954) is a German professional football manager and former player who has most recently worked as an assistant coach of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Playing career Born in Bochum, Gerland spent his entire professional career from 1972 to 1984 playing at VfL Bochum. He played as a striker until 1975, when he switched to defence, where he played until the end of his career. He made 204 Bundesliga appearances and scored four goals. Managerial career 1985–1990: Early career Gerland's career as manager began in 1985 as the assistant manager at VfL Bochum. In 1986 Gerland took over as manager from Rolf Schafstall at VfL Bochum. The tenure lasted from 1 July 1986 to 30 June 1988. Bochum finished in 11th place in the 1986–87 season. They were eliminated in the first round of the German Cup. Bochum finished in 12th place during the 1987–88 season. They also got to the final of the German Cup where they lost to Eintracht Frankfurt 1–0. ...
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Karl Gerland
Karl Gerland (14 July 1905 – 21 April 1945) was a Nazism, Nazi ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Electoral Hesse, Gau Kurhessen and ''Oberpräsident'' of the Prussian Province of Kurhessen. On 21 April 1945, Gerland was killed in action against the Soviet Red Army at Frankfurt (Oder). Early years Gerland was born in Trendelburg, Gottsbüren (now a part of Trendelburg) near Kassel. He graduated from the gymnasium (Germany), gymnasium in Kassel in 1923 and then was employed as a mechanical engineer by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, German National Railway. He pursued additional training in engineering at the University of Hanover until 1928 and then worked in various commercial and technical businesses. Nazi career Gerland joined the Nazi Party in December 1929 and became '' Kreisleiter'' (County Leader) in Kreis Hofgeismar from September 1930 to January 1932. From January to July 1932, he was ''Beziksleiter'' (District Leader) in Fulda (district), Fulda-Gersfeld-Hünfeld and Deputy Propaganda Lea ...
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Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon proper had a population of 522,969 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon metropolitan area had a population of 2,280,845 that same year, the second most populated in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,411,571 in 2019. Lyon is the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and seat of the Departmental Council of Rhône (whose jurisdiction, however, no longer extends over the Metropolis of Lyo ...
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Gerland, Côte-d'Or
Gerland () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Côte-d'Or department The following is a list of the 698 Communes of France, communes of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):

Parc De Gerland
, previously () and also called , is a large greenspace in Lyon situated on a former industrial site in the south of the city near the confluence of the Rhône and the Saone. Construction began in 1996, and the park was developed over an area of . The initial two phases of construction concluded in 2000 and 2006, and were carried out by landscape architect . The project was managed by Grand Lyon. The park was renamed to Parc Henry-Chabert on 19 December 2020. The park includes several playgrounds, a skatepark and a botanical garden. It is situated next to the Stade de Gerland, and was used during the French archery championship finals in 2007 and 2012. See also * Parc de la Tête d'or * Parc de Parilly * Parc Sergent Blandan * Parks in Lyon The city of Lyon and its urban area have several parks. The main parks in the inner city include Jardin des Chartreux in the 1st arrondissement, Parc Bazin, Parc Chambovet and Parc Sisley in the 3rd arrondissement, Parc de la Ceri ...
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