Saint-Girons (Ariège)
Saint-Girons is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: * Saint-Girons, Ariège, in the Ariège department * Saint-Girons-d'Aiguevives, in the Gironde department * Saint-Girons-en-Béarn (formerly Saint-Girons), in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department * Vielle-Saint-Girons Vielle-Saint-Girons is a commune in the Landes department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Landes department The following is a list of the 327 communes of the Landes department of France. ...

Saint-Girons, Ariège
Saint-Girons (; oc, Sent Gironç) is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France. History Antiquity Unlike its close neighbour Saint-Lizier, Saint-Girons isn't an ancient city; there was however a ''lucus'' on its present territory where some Roman finds were made during the construction of the train station in the beginning of the twentieth century. Modern-days district ''Le Luc'' is considered to owe its name to this ancient ''lucus''. Foundation The city is named after Saint Girons, a saint from fifth-century Landes who evangelized Novempopulania. In the ninth century some of his relics were supposedly buried in Saint Girons' Church, around which the city later developed. Climate Saint-Girons has a moderate but warm oceanic climate, that is quite prone to temporary vast extremes in temperature as a result of its inland position. Population Inhabitants of Saint-Girons are called ''Saint-Gironnais''. Sport Stage 8 of the 2009 Tour de France fin ...
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Saint-Girons-d'Aiguevives
Saint-Girons-d'Aiguevives is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Gironde department The following is a list of the 535 communes of the Gironde department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Gironde {{Gironde-geo-stub ...
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Saint-Girons-en-Béarn
Saint-Girons-en-Béarn is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. The commune was formerly called ''Saint-Girons'', and was officially renamed Saint-Girons-en-Béarn on 7 July 2006.Décret n°2006-808 du 7 juillet 2006 portant changement de nom de communes

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Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department The following is a list of the 546 communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):
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