Thury may refer to:
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Pierre de Thury
Pierre de Thury (died 9 December 1410) was a French bishop and cardinal of the Avignon Obedience, who served as a royal secretary and Master of Requests, and then as papal Nuncio and Apostolic Legate on several occasions. He participated in two ...
( -1410), said the cardinal Maillezais, a French cardinal of the Avignon Obedience, see
Council of Pisa
The Council of Pisa was a controversial ecumenical council of the Catholic Church held in 1409. It attempted to end the Western Schism by deposing Benedict XIII (Avignon) and Gregory XII (Rome) for schism and manifest heresy. The College of C ...
*György Thury (1519-1571), a Hungarian nobleman (
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Louis-Pierre Thury
Louis-Pierre Thury (c. 1644, Notre Dame de Le Breuil-en-Auge, Breuil en Auge (Department of Calvados), France-June 3, 1699, City of Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a French missionary (secular priest) who was sent to North America during the tim ...
(died in 1699), French missionary priest in Acadia
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César-François Cassini de Thury
César-François Cassini de Thury (17 June 1714 – 4 September 1784), also called Cassini III or Cassini de Thury, was a French astronomer and cartographer.
Biography
Cassini de Thury was born in Thury-sous-Clermont, in the Oise departme ...
(1714-1784), French geographer
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Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury
Louis-Étienne François Héricart-Ferrand, vicomte de Thury, (Paris, 3 June 1776 – Rome, 15 January 1854) was a French politician and man of science. He was a mining engineer who produced more than 350 scholarly articles; was a member of nume ...
(1776–1854), French scientist and politician
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René Thury
René Thury (7 August 1860 – 23 April 1938) was a Swiss pioneer in electrical engineering. He was known for his work with high voltage direct current electricity transmission and was known in the professional world as the "King of DC."
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(1860-1938), a Swiss engineer
Toponyms
France
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Thury, Côte-d'Or
Thury () 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 the Côte-d'Or department of France.
The communes cooperate ...
, in the Côte-d'Or (département)
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Thury, Yonne
Thury () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, in the natural region of Forterre. Its inhabitants are called ''Thurycois'' and ''Thurycoises''.
Name
Thury's is attested as ''Tauriacus'' in ...
, in the Yonne (département)
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Thury-en-Valois
Thury-en-Valois () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
See also
*Communes of the Oise department
The following is a list of the 679 communes of the Oise department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following inte ...
, in the Oise (département)
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Thury-Harcourt
Thury-Harcourt () is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom. The town is south of Caen, in the Orne valley. It is p ...
, in the Calvados (département)
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Thury-sous-Clermont
Thury-sous-Clermont (, literally ''Thury under Clermont'') is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
See also
* Communes of the Oise department
The following is a list of the 679 communes of the Oise department of France.
The ...
, in the Oise (département)
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La Villeneuve-sous-Thury, French commune in the Oise (département)
Engineering
*Abbreviation for
Thury-System, an outdated mechanical HVDC-system developed by René Thury
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