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Avignon
(ȧ vē nyōn′)
city in SE France, on the Rhone River: seat of the papacy (1309-77): pop. 87,000
See Avignon in American Heritage Dictionary 4
A city of southeast France on the Rhone River. It was the seat of the papacy from 1309 to 1378 and the residence of several antipopes from 1378 to 1417. Population: 90,800.
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