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Alès (Alès) is a commune in the Gard department in the Occitanie region in southern France. [1]

83 relations: Alès Cathedral, Alphonse Daudet, Anduze, Arre, Gard, Arrigas, Association football, École des mines d'Alès, Bílina, Bombyx mori, Canton of Alès-1, Canton of Alès-2, Canton of Alès-3, Catholic Church, Cévennes, Cévennes National Park, Championnat National, Charles Dugas, Chemist, Chronicle, Classical music, Communes of France, Communes of the Gard department, Czech Republic, Defender (association football), Departments of France, Diocese, Edgard de Larminat, Edict of Nantes, Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Flacherie, Forward (association football), France, France national football team, Franks, French Revolution, Gabriel Montoya, Gard, Gardon, Guillaume de Ramel, Huguenots, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Jean-Pierre des Ours de Mandajors, Kilmarnock, Laurent Blanc, Le Vigan, Gard, Louis Leprince-Ringuet, Louis Pasteur, Louis XIII of France, Louis XIV of France, ..., Louis-François de Bausset, Maurice André, Merovingian dynasty, Meyrueis, Nabil El Zhar, Nîmes, Occitanie (administrative region), Olympique Alès, Parc botanique de la Tour Vieille, Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Pébrine, Peace of Alès, Physicist, Pope Innocent XII, Pupa, Regions of France, Rigord, Romain Dumas, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Avignon, Roman Catholic Diocese of Mende, Saint-Jean-du-Gard, Scotland, Septimania, Sigebert I, Silk, Sister city, Stéphane Sarrazin, Subprefectures in France, Theudebert I, Titular see, Trumpet, Visigoths, Vissec. Expand index (33 more) »

Alès Cathedral

Alès Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Alès) is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and located in the town of Alès in the department of Gard, France.

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Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet (13 May 184016 December 1897) was a French novelist.

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Anduze

Anduze (Andusa in Occitan) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

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Arre, Gard

Arre (Arre) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

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Arrigas

Arrigas is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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École des mines d'Alès

L'École des Mines d'Alès (EMA) was created in 1843 by King Louis Philippe, under the guardianship of the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment, is a French technology and engineering university.

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Bílina

Bílina (Bilin) is a town in the Teplice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic.

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Bombyx mori

The silkworm is the larva or caterpillar or imago of the domestic silkmoth, Bombyx mori (Latin: "silkworm of the mulberry tree").

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Canton of Alès-1

The canton of Alès-1 is an administrative division of the Gard department, southern France.

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Canton of Alès-2

The canton of Alès-1 is an administrative division of the Gard department, southern France.

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Canton of Alès-3

The canton of Alès-1 is an administrative division of the Gard department, southern France.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Cévennes

The Cévennes (Cevenas) are a range of mountains in south-central France, covering parts of the départements of Ardèche, Gard, Hérault and Lozère.

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Cévennes National Park

The Cévennes National Park (Parc national des Cévennes) is a national park located in southern France, in the mountainous area of Cévennes.

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Championnat National

The Championnat de France National (French National Championship), commonly referred to as simply National or Division 3, serves as the third division of the French football league system behind Ligue 1 and Ligue 2.

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Charles Dugas

Charles Dugas (22 October 1885, Alès – 4 October 1957, Montpellier) was a 20th-century French archaeologist, specialized in the study of pottery of ancient Greece, a member of the French School at Athens and dean of the Faculté des lettres de Lyon.

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Chemist

A chemist (from Greek chēm (ía) alchemy; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchimista) is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry.

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Chronicle

A chronicle (chronica, from Greek χρονικά, from χρόνος, chronos, "time") is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Communes of France

The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Communes of the Gard department

This is a list of the 353 communes of the Gard department of France.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Defender (association football)

In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals.

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government below the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the commune.

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Diocese

The word diocese is derived from the Greek term διοίκησις meaning "administration".

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Edgard de Larminat

Edgard de Larminat (29 November 1895 – 1 July 1962) was a French general, who fought in two World Wars.

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Edict of Nantes

The Edict of Nantes (French: édit de Nantes), signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in the nation, which was still considered essentially Catholic at the time.

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Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition

The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–11) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Flacherie

Flacherie (literally: "flaccidness") is a disease of silkworms, caused by silkworms eating infected or contaminated mulberry leaves.

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Forward (association football)

Forwards are the players on an association football team who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore most responsible for scoring goals.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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France national football team

The France national football team (Équipe de France de football) represents France in international football and is controlled by the French Football Federation, also known as FFF, or in Fédération française de football.

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Franks

The Franks (Franci or gens Francorum) were a collection of Germanic peoples, whose name was first mentioned in 3rd century Roman sources, associated with tribes on the Lower and Middle Rhine in the 3rd century AD, on the edge of the Roman Empire.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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Gabriel Montoya

Gabriel Montoya (20 October 1868 in Alès – 7 October 1914 in Castres) was a French singer, chansonnier and lyricist.

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Gard

Gard (Gard) is a department in southern France in the Occitanie region.

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Gardon

The Gardon or Gard (Occitan and French: Gardon, Gard) is a river in southern France.

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Guillaume de Ramel

Guillaume Henry de Ramel (born August 20, 1974) is a Rhode Island investor, philanthropist, and politician.

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Huguenots

Huguenots (Les huguenots) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.

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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses.

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Jean-Baptiste Dumas

Jean Baptiste André Dumas (14 July 180010 April 1884) was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities.

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Jean-Pierre des Ours de Mandajors

Jean-Pierre des Ours de Mandajors (24 June 1679 – 15 November 1747) was an 18th-century French historian and playwright.

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Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock (Cille Mheàrnaig, "Meàrnag's church") is a large burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland with a population of 46,350, making it the 15th most populated place in Scotland and the second largest town in Ayrshire.

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Laurent Blanc

Laurent Robert Blanc (born 19 November 1965) is a French football manager and former player.

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Le Vigan, Gard

Le Vigan (Lo Vigan) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

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Louis Leprince-Ringuet

Louis Leprince-Ringuet (27 March 1901, Alès – 23 December 2000, Paris) was a French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science.

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Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.

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Louis XIII of France

Louis XIII (27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1610 to 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.

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Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Louis-François de Bausset

Louis-François de Bausset (14 December 1748 – 21 June 1824) was a French cardinal, writer and member of the Académie française.

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Maurice André

Maurice André (born 21 May 1933 in Alès, France, and died 25 February 2012 in Bayonne) was a French trumpeter, active in the classical music field.

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Merovingian dynasty

The Merovingians were a Salian Frankish dynasty that ruled the Franks for nearly 300 years in a region known as Francia in Latin, beginning in the middle of the 5th century.

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Meyrueis

Meyrueis is a commune in the Lozère ''département'' in southern France.

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Nabil El Zhar

Nabil El Zhar (نبيل الزهر; born 27 August 1986) is a Moroccan footballer who plays for Spanish club CD Leganés as a right winger.

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Nîmes

Nîmes (Provençal Occitan: Nimes) is a city in the Occitanie region of southern France.

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Occitanie (administrative region)

Occitanie (Occitània,, Occitània) is an administrative region of France that was created on 1 January 2016 from former French regions Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées.

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Olympique Alès

Olympique Alès is a French association football club founded in 1923, based in the commune of Alès.

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Parc botanique de la Tour Vieille

The Parc botanique de la Tour Vieille is a municipal park with botanical collections, located at the Hôtel de Ville in Alès, Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

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Paris Saint-Germain F.C.

Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, commonly known as Paris Saint-Germain, Paris SG, or simply PSG, is a French professional football club based in the city of Paris.

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Pébrine

Pébrine, or "pepper disease," is a disease of silkworms, which is caused by protozoan microsporidian parasites, mainly Nosema bombycis and, to a lesser extent, Vairimorpha, Pleistophora and Thelohania species.

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Peace of Alès

The Peace of Alais, also known as the Edict of Alès or the Edict of Grace, was a treaty negotiated by Cardinal Richelieu with Huguenot leaders and signed by King Louis XIII of France on 28 June, 1629.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Pope Innocent XII

Pope Innocent XII (Innocentius XII; 13 March 1615 – 27 September 1700), born Antonio Pignatelli, was Pope from 12 July 1691 to his death in 1700.

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Pupa

A pupa (pūpa, "doll"; plural: pūpae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.

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Regions of France

France is divided into 18 administrative regions (région), including 13 metropolitan regions and 5 overseas regions.

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Rigord

Rigord (Rigordus) (1150 – c. 1209) was a French chronicler, was probably born near Alais in Languedoc, and became a physician.

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Romain Dumas

Romain Dumas (born 14 December 1977) is a French professional auto racing driver and current Porsche factory driver.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Avignon

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Avignon (Latin: Archidioecesis Avenionensis; French: Archidiocèse d'Avignon) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Mende

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Mende (Latin: Dioecoesis Mimatensis; French: Diocèse de Mende) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Saint-Jean-du-Gard

Saint-Jean-du-Gard is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Septimania

Septimania (Septimanie,; Septimània,; Septimània) was the western region of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis that passed under the control of the Visigoths in 462, when Septimania was ceded to their king, Theodoric II.

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Sigebert I

Sigebert I (c. 535 – c. 575) was a frankish king of Austrasia from the death of his father in 561 to his own death.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Stéphane Sarrazin

Stéphane Jean-Marc Sarrazin (born 2 November 1975) is a French professional racing driver.

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Subprefectures in France

In France, a subprefecture (sous-préfecture) is the administrative center of a departmental arrondissement that does not contain the prefecture for its department.

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Theudebert I

Theudebert I (Thibert/Théodebert) (c. 503 – 547 or 548) was the Merovingian king of Austrasia from 533 to his death in 548.

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Titular see

A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese".

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Visigoths

The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi; Visigoti) were the western branches of the nomadic tribes of Germanic peoples referred to collectively as the Goths.

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Vissec

Vissec is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alès

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