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Barjon () is a
List of Successive Mayors
The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
*A Statue: Saint John the Evangelist (17th century)
*A Statue: Saint Madeleine (16th century)
*A Group Sculpture: Virgin of Pity (17th century)
*The Sarcophagus of Saint Frodulphe (8th century)
*A Statue: Saint Benigne (15th century)
*A Shrine to Saint Frodulphe (17th century)
*A Shrine to Saint Frodulphe (17th century)
*A Statue: Saint Roch (17th century)
*A Statue: Saint Frodulphe (17th century)Ministry of Culture, Palissy
commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...
region of eastern France
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.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Barjonais''.
Geography
Barjon is located on the southern flank of Mont Mercure (469 m) at an altitude of 397 metres at the town hall. It is some 40 km south-west ofLangres
Langres () is a commune in northeastern France. It is a subprefecture of the department of Haute-Marne, in the region of Grand Est.
History
As the capital of the Romanized Gallic tribe known as the Lingones, it was called Andematunnum, then ...
and 40 km north by north-west of Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
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Access to the commune is by the D19 road from Salives in the west which passes through the village and continues east to Avot. The D19E goes north from the village to join the D190 on the northern border of the commune.
The commune is forested in the southern arm with the centre of the commune farmland and a band of forest around its borders.
''La Tille'' stream forms the south-western border of the commune as it flows east across the "neck" of the commune then forms part of the eastern border before continuing east to join ''La Creuse'' at Avot. ''La Tille de Barjon'' rises just east of the commune and flows south near the eastern border to join La Tille. ''Le Volgrain'' stream rises north-west of the commune and flows south down the western side of the commune and joins La Tille just south-west of the village.
History
After the raids by the Saracens onAutun
Autun () is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France. It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Ro ...
and the sacking of the village by Anbasa ibn Suhaym Al-Kalbi on 22 August 725, Saint Frodulphe de Barjon, the Abbot of Saint Martin, retired as a hermit to Barjon.
Barjon appears as ''Barjon'' on the 1750 Cassini Map and the same on the 1790 version.
Heraldry
Administration
List of Successive Mayors
Demography
In 2017 the commune had 41 inhabitants.Culture and heritage
Religious heritage
The commune has a Cemetery Cross (15th century) which is registered as an historical monument.
The Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects:
*A Statue: Saint John the Evangelist (17th century)
*A Statue: Saint Madeleine (16th century)
*A Group Sculpture: Virgin of Pity (17th century)
*The Sarcophagus of Saint Frodulphe (8th century)
*A Statue: Saint Benigne (15th century)
*A Shrine to Saint Frodulphe (17th century)
*A Shrine to Saint Frodulphe (17th century)
*A Statue: Saint Roch (17th century)
*A Statue: Saint Frodulphe (17th century)Ministry of Culture, Palissy
See also
*Communes of the Côte-d'Or department
The following is a list of the 698 communes of the Côte-d'Or department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Côte-d'Or