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Saint-Genis-Pouilly
Saint-Genis-Pouilly (; frp, Sant-Genés-Polyi) is a commune in the Ain department within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. It is located in the Pays de Gex, at the foot of the Jura Mountains. Bordering the Swiss frontier, it is part of the cross-border area of Geneva. With a population of almost 14,000 inhabitants (2019), it is the fifth most populous commune in the department of Ain. A large portion of CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics, is located within the territory of Saint-Genis-Pouilly; the ALICE experiment is located on the periphery of the town, and the main entrance to the primary CERN campus (Meyrin) and the ATLAS experiment are located only 3 km from the centre of St Genis. CERN is the world's largest fundamental physics research laboratory and its presence has largely been responsible for the development of the community of Saint Genis since the middle of the 1960s. Geography Saint-Genis-Pouilly is composed of two mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pays De Gex
The arrondissement of Gex is an arrondissement of France in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It approximately corresponds to the historical region of the Pays de Gex. It has 27 communes. Its population is 93,027 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of Gex, and their INSEE codes, are: # Cessy (01071) # Challex (01078) # Chevry (01103) #Chézery-Forens (01104) # Collonges (01109) # Crozet (01135) # Divonne-les-Bains (01143) # Échenevex (01153) #Farges (01158) # Ferney-Voltaire (01160) #Gex (01173) #Grilly (01180) #Léaz (01209) # Lélex (01210) # Mijoux (01247) # Ornex (01281) # Péron (01288) # Pougny (01308) # Prévessin-Moëns (01313) # Saint-Genis-Pouilly (01354) # Saint-Jean-de-Gonville (01360) # Sauverny (01397) # Ségny (01399) # Sergy (01401) # Thoiry (01419) # Versonnex (01435) # Vesancy (01436) History The arrondissement of Gex was created in 1800, disbanded in 1926 and restored in 1933. At the January 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté D'agglomération Du Pays De Gex
Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Gex is the '' communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Gex. It is located in the Ain department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, eastern France. Created in 1995, its seat is in Gex.CA du Pays de Gex (N° SIREN : 240100750) BANATIC, accessed 7 October 2022. Its area is 404.9 km2. Its population was 98,257 in 2019, of which 13,121 in Gex proper.Comparateur de territoire INSEE. Accessed 7 October 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satigny
Satigny is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It is the largest municipality of the canton by land area and the largest wine-producing municipality of the country. Its territory contains the majority of the Mandement area, a designated heritage site of national importance shared with the neighbouring municipalities of Russin and Dardagny. Etymology Satigny is first mentioned in 91 as ''villam Satiniatis'', though this comes from a 12th Century copy of the earlier document. In around 1128 it was mentioned as ''de Satiniaco'' and in 1280 as ''Satignie''. The name very likely origins in Gallo-Roman in reference of local Roman owners. The etymology of Peney on the other hand is different and subject to different interpretations. The first one is that it could come from the Latin "pinetum", which stands for "forest of pine trees", but it could also come from the Celtic roots of "pen" (extremity) and "nec" (height). Bourdigny's name, for its part, also has a dif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prévessin-Moëns
Prévessin-Moëns is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France, in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The residents of Prévessin-Moëns are known as ''Prévessinois'' or ''Prévessinoises'' (feminine). Geography The commune of Prévessin-Moëns is situated between the Jura mountains and the Alps, with a view of Mont Blanc. Originally founded as a combination of the communes of Prévessin and Moëns, the commune now also includes the hamlets of Magny, les Aglands, Brétigny, and Vésegnin. Founded as an agricultural commune, Prévessin-Moëns has transformed into a low-rise housing community populated mostly by "frontalier(e)s" who work across the Swiss border in the canton of Geneva. The town enjoys a temperate climate. Education The preschools-primary schools serving the community are École des Grands Chênes, École de la Bretonnière, École ALICE, and the intercommunal École Jean de la Fontaine (operated by SIVOM de l'Est Gessien of Ferney-Voltaire). Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevry, Ain
Chevry (; frp, Chevri) is a commune in the Ain department, in the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, eastern France. INSEE Chevry's inhabitants are called Chevrysiens. Chevry is located between Gex Gex or GEX may refer to:
People
*Amélie Gex (1835–1883), French writer and poet
* Émilie Gex-Fabry (born 1986), Swiss ski mountaineer, biologist, and botanist
* John Peter De Gex (1809–1887), English barrister and law reporter
* Walter J. Gex ... and Saint-Genis-Pouilly, on the departmental highway RD984, which is the primary access to the t ...
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Pregnin
Pregnin is a hamlet administratively part of the Saint-Genis-Pouilly commune in the Ain ''département'', France. It is from the Swiss border, and from downtown Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situ .... It is also home Les Lutins de Pregnin, an organisation that funds local schools and organises community events. References Villages in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes {{RhoneAlpes-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crozet (Ain)
Crozet () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Crozet is nestled at the foot of the Jura mountains in eastern France some from the centre of the Swiss city of Geneva and approximately from the French city of Lyon. It is also near Geneva International Airport, at a distance of some . Its chief attraction is a cable car which carries hikers to the top of the Jura during the summer and serves a small ski resort during the winter. It has several sporting clubs: the St-Genis-Ferney-Crozet sporting association (soccer), a tennis club, and a ski club. Other places of interest include the remains of the château de Rossillon, a church (reconstructed around 1830), the Crozet forest, and the Monts-Jura ski area, which runs between Crozet and the town of Lélex in the adjacent valley. Religious history Saint Peter Chanel, later to die as a missionary in the Pacific and be declared a martyr and eventually canonised, was parish priest of Crozet between 1827 and 183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 department, the second son of Jacques Cassini and Suzanne Françoise Charpentier de Charmois. He was a grandson of Giovanni Domenico Cassini, and would become the father of Jean-Dominique Cassini, Comte de Cassini. In 1739, he became a member of the French Academy of Sciences as a supernumerary adjunct astronomer, in 1741 as an adjunct astronomer, and in 1745 as a full member astronomer. In January, 1751 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He succeeded to his father's official position in 1756 and continued the hereditary surveying operations.Jonathan Powell, ''From Cave Art to Hubble: A History of Astronomical Record Keeping'', (Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019), 115 In 1744, he began the construction of a great topographical map ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire. In 60 BC, Caesar, Crassus and Pompey formed the First Triumvirate, an informal political alliance that dominated Roman politics for several years. Their attempts to amass power as were opposed by the within the Roman Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the frequent support of Cicero. Caesar rose to become one of the most powerful politicians in the Roman Republic through a string of military victories in the Gallic Wars, completed by 51 BC, which greatly extended Roman territory. During this time he both invaded Britain an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocletian
Diocletian (; la, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, grc, Διοκλητιανός, Diokletianós; c. 242/245 – 311/312), nicknamed ''Iovius'', was Roman emperor from 284 until his abdication in 305. He was born Gaius Valerius Diocles to a family of low status in the Roman province of Dalmatia (Roman province), Dalmatia. Diocles rose through the ranks of the military early in his career, eventually becoming a Roman cavalry, cavalry commander for the army of Emperor Carus. After the deaths of Carus and his son Numerian on a campaign in Persia, Diocles was proclaimed emperor by the troops, taking the name Diocletianus. The title was also claimed by Carus's surviving son, Carinus, but Diocletian defeated him in the Battle of the Margus. Diocletian's reign stabilized the empire and ended the Crisis of the Third Century. He appointed fellow officer Maximian as ''Augustus (title), Augustus'', co-emperor, in 286. Diocletian reigned in the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Empire, and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Genest
In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and denomination. In Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran doctrine, all of their faithful deceased in Heaven are considered to be saints, but some are considered worthy of greater honor or emulation. Official ecclesiastical recognition, and consequently a public cult of veneration, is conferred on some denominational saints through the process of canonization in the Catholic Church or glorification in the Eastern Orthodox Church after their approval. While the English word ''saint'' originated in Christianity, historians of religion tend to use the appellation "in a more general way to refer to the state of special holiness that many religions attribute to certain people", referring to the Jewish tzadik, the Islamic walī, the Hindu rishi or Sikh gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Genis-Laval
Saint-Genis-Laval () is a commune in the metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. The Lyon Observatory is located in this commune. History Saint-Genis-Laval draws its name from Saint Genis or Genest, a Roman actor tortured under Diocletian. At the beginning of the 13th century, to differentiate it of other villages of the same name, the town added a qualitative to its name, «of the valley», which in the 15th century became "Laval". The first mention of the settlement of Saint-Genis dates back to 807, a year the archbishop Leidrade donated to the hospitals of Saint-Roman and Saint-Genis. In 984 the parish of Saint-Genis was first mentioned as part of properties of the archbishop of Lyon, in the census of the 52 parishes of the metropolitan Church in Lyon. Little by little, the archbishop assigned his belongings to the Canons of the Lyon Cathedral. The canons would go on to build a castle on the highest part of the village, where the chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
