Cluny () is a
commune in the eastern French
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
of
Saône-et-Loire
Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part.
Saône-et-Loire is Bo ...
, in the
region of
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is northwest of
Mâcon.
The town grew up around the
Benedictine Abbey of Cluny, founded by Duke
William I of Aquitaine in 910. The height of Cluniac influence was from the second half of the 10th century through the early 12th. The abbey was sacked by the
Huguenots in 1562, and many of its valuable manuscripts were destroyed or removed.
Geography
The river
Grosne
Grosne () is a commune in the Territoire de Belfort department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in northeastern France.
See also
*Communes of the Territoire de Belfort department
The following is a list of the 101 communes of the Territoire de ...
flows northward through the commune and crosses the town.
See also
*
Cluniac Reforms
*
Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department
References
External links
Official website(in French)
Communes of Saône-et-Loire
Burgundy
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