The Avignon Papacy (French: Papauté d'Avignon) was the period from 1309 to 1376 during which seven successive popes resided in Avignon (at the time within...
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Avignon (/ˈævɪnjɒ̃/, US also /ˌævɪnˈjoʊn/, French: [aviɲɔ̃] ; Provençal: Avinhon (Classical norm) or Avignoun (Mistralian norm), IPA: [aviˈɲun]; Latin:...
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Avignon University (French: Avignon Université; formerly known as Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse) is a public university located in Avignon...
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The following is a history of Avignon, France. The site of Avignon has been occupied since the Neolithic period as shown by excavations at Rocher des Doms...
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Palais des Papes (redirect from Papal Palace, Avignon)
Papes (English: Palace of the Popes; lo Palais dei Papas in Occitan) in Avignon, Southern France, is one of the largest and most important medieval Gothic...
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gallery in Avignon, southern France. It opened in 1976 and has an exceptional collection of "primitives" and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, which...
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AC Arlésien (redirect from AC Arles Avignon)
the club in 2012 after a five-year stint in Italy. In France, it was commonplace to describe Arles-Avignon as an overachieving club primarily due to succeeding...
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a timeline of the history of the city of Avignon in southern France. 4th–5th century AD - Diocese of Avignon established. 500 - Frankish regulus, Clovis...
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Pope Gregory XI (category Avignon Papacy)
December 1370 to his death, in March 1378. He was the seventh and last Avignon pope and the most recent French pope recognized by the modern Catholic...
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Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (redirect from The Young Ladies of Avignon)
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon, originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish...
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Pope Urban VI (category Articles containing Italian-language text)
Pope Urban VI (Latin: Urbanus VI; Italian: Urbano VI; c. 1318 – 15 October 1389), born Bartolomeo Prignano (Italian pronunciation: [bartoloˈmɛːo priɲˈɲaːno])...
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Pope Clement V (redirect from Clement V of Avignon)
by birth, Clement moved the Papacy from Rome to Avignon, ushering in the period known as the Avignon Papacy. Raymond Bertrand was born in Vilandraut,...
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Papal States (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
States (/ˈpeɪpəl/ PAY-pəl; Italian: Stato Pontificio; Latin: Dicio Pontificia), officially the State of the Church (Italian: Stato della Chiesa [ˈstaːto...
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Enguerrand Quarton (redirect from Avignon Pietá)
found in Italian art, and was developed by Simone Martini a century earlier. The painting has the same plain gold background as the Avignon Pietà, which...
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Antipope Benedict XIII (redirect from Avignon Pope Benedict XIII)
pope and return the papacy to Avignon. Consequently, they rioted and laid siege to the cardinals, insisting on an Italian pope. The conclave duly elected...
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Antipope Clement VII (redirect from Avignon Pope Clement VII)
cardinals who opposed Pope Urban VI and was the first antipope residing in Avignon, France. His election led to the Western Schism. The son of Amadeus III...
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mid-19th century, Italian unification, led by the House of Savoy, led to the establishment of an Italian nation-state. The new Kingdom of Italy quickly modernized...
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War of the Eight Saints (category Avignon Papacy)
Pope Gregory XI and a coalition of Italian city-states led by Florence that contributed to the end of the Avignon Papacy. The causes of the war were rooted...
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The walls of Avignon (French: Les Remparts d'Avignon) are a series of defensive stone walls that surround the city of Avignon in the south of France. They...
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city of Avignon, where the bankers settled, became known simply as the Exchange. According to de Roover, "Avignon can be considered an Italian colony,...
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John Laskaris Kalopheros (category Avignon Papacy)
confiscated. Freed in 1371 or 1372, he left Cyprus to serve the Papacy in Avignon. In 1372 or 1373, Kalopheros contracted his third marriage to Lucie, daughter...
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Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (French pronunciation: [vil'nœv lez‿avi'ɲɔ̃]; Provençal: Vilanòva d’Avinhon) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France...
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Provence also held lordship over Avignon. The latter was an autonomous city, governed by a podestà and consuls on the Italian model. It was wealthy, possessing...
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Provence (section The popes in Avignon (14th century))
Avignon, a period known as the Avignon Papacy. From 1309 until 1377, seven popes reigned in Avignon before the Schism between the Roman and Avignon churches...
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significant control over Italy. This war had meant that the independence of several Italian states had ended and that most of the Italian Peninsula would be...
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Siena (redirect from Siena (Italy))
Siena (/siˈɛnə/ see-EN-ə; Italian: [ˈsjɛːna, ˈsjeːna] ; Latin: Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena. Siena...
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Renaissance humanism (redirect from Italian humanists)
first began in Italy and then spread across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. During the period, the term humanist (Italian: umanista)...
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Pope Boniface IX (category Articles containing Italian-language text)
Western Schism. In this time, the Avignon claimants, Clement VII and Benedict XIII, maintained the Roman Curia in Avignon, under the protection of the French...
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Samuel Gigot (category Footballers from Avignon)
on loan from Ligue 1 club Marseille. Gigot is a youth product of Arles-Avignon. He made his Ligue 2 debut on 30 August 2013 in a match against Niort....
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Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (category Articles containing Italian-language text)
addition of the following adjacent areas: the former papal territory of Avignon, known as Comtat Venaissin; the former Sardinian-Piedmontese County of...
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