Laon (French: [lɑ̃]) is a city in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. The Ancient Diocese of Laon, which rises a hundred metres...
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Look up laon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Laon is a city in Picardie in northern France. Laon may also refer to: 12279 Laon, a main-belt asteroid...
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Laon Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Laon) is a Roman Catholic church located in Laon, Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France. Built in the twelfth...
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Heribert, Count of Laon, was the maternal grandfather of Charlemagne. Charibert was the father of Charlemagne's mother, Bertrada of Laon. Only Charibert's...
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Bar-sur-Aube 1 The Battle of Laon (9–10 March 1814) was the victory of Blücher's Prussian army over Napoleon's French army near Laon. During the Battle of Craonne...
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Laon (meaning "the ancient one"), is a pre-colonial female supreme creator deity in the animist anito beliefs of the Visayan peoples in the Philippines...
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Bertrada of Laon (born between 710 and 727 – 12 July 783), also known as Bertrada the Younger or Bertha Broadfoot (cf. Latin: Regina pede aucae, i.e. the...
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The Revolt of Islam (redirect from Laon and Cythna)
Bysshe Shelley in 1817. The poem was originally published under the title Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth...
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Martin was the count of Laon in the late second half of the 7th century. After the assassination of King Dagobert II of Austrasia in 679, Count Martin...
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Laon is a railway station serving the town Laon., Aisne department, northern France. It was built in 1857 by Chemins de Fer du Nord. The station is served...
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Bernard II, Count of Laon (c. 845 – before 893) was a Frankish noble and a member of the Herbertien dynasty, a branch of the Carolingian dynasty. He was...
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The railway line between Reims and Laon (French: Ligne de Reims à Laon) is a French 52 km long railway located in the departments of the Marne and Aisne...
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Montreuil Abbey (redirect from Montreuil-sous-Laon)
of Laon, France, located at first at Montreuil-en-Thiérache (commune of Rocquigny, department of Aisne) until the 17th century and afterwards in Laon, where...
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Laons is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department "Répertoire national des élus: les maires"...
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Anselm of Laon (Latin: Anselmus; d. 1117), properly Ansel (Ansellus), was a French theologian and founder of a school of scholars who helped to pioneer...
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studied at Reims and was in the chapter of Metz Cathedral. He became bishop of Laon in 977. The chronicler Richer of Rheims reports an accusation of 977 against...
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Pardulus of Laon was bishop of Laon from 847 to 857. He is known for his participation in theological controversy. A letter of his to Hincmar of Reims...
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Hoger (abbot) (redirect from Hoger de Laon)
Hoger (Latin: Hogerus; died 906) was the abbot of Werden and Saint Ludger in Helmstedt from 898 until 902. From Duke Otto I of Saxony, he acquired the...
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of Laon in the present-day département of Aisne, was a Catholic diocese for around 1300 years, up to the French Revolution. Its seat was in Laon, France...
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The siege of Laon was a Frankish siege of the rebel Grifo's fortified city of Laon in 741. The Frankish army under the Mayors of the Palace, the brothers...
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Bernard of Italy (a grandson of Charlemagne) and his wife, Cunigunda of Laon. He supported Emperor Lothar after the death of Emperor Louis the Pious,...
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are at Laon and the Chemin des Dames ridge. The department of Aisne includes one medium-sized city (Saint-Quentin) and three small cities (Laon, Soissons...
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Hincmar, called the Younger, was the Bishop of Laon in the West Frankish Kingdom of Charles the Bald from 858 to 871. His career is remembered by a succession...
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The canton of Laon-Nord is a former administrative division in northern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came...
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Colart de Laon (active 1377–1411; died before 27 May 1417) was a French painter. First mentioned in 1377 as working for Philip the Bold, he later became...
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Merovingian script (section Laon)
were four major centres of Merovingian script: the monasteries of Luxeuil, Laon, Corbie, and Chelles. Each script developed from uncial, half-uncial, and...
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The Abbey of St. Martin, Laon, established in 1124 in Laon in the modern department of Aisne in northern France, was one of the earliest foundations of...
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v t e Prefectures of the departments of France Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) Laon (Aisne) Moulins (Allier) Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) Gap (Hautes-Alpes)...
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The Abbey of St. John, Laon (French: Abbaye Saint-Jean de Laon) was a Benedictine monastery in Laon, France, from 1128 to 1766, which replaced a nunnery...
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Laon Laan station (also called Dapitan station) is a railway station located on the South Main Line in the city of Manila, Philippines. The station is...
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