Gergovie
Gergovie is a French village in the commune of La Roche-Blanche in the Puy-de-Dôme département, a few kilometres south of Clermont-Ferrand. It is situated at the foot of the Gergovie plateau, the official but disputed site of the Battle of Gergovia, where…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in France
- Also known as: “Gergòvia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Gergovie and Archeological Museum of the Battle of Gergovia.
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Gergovie
Church
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Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Gergovie is a church.
Oppidum de Gergovie
Archaeological site
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Oppidum de Gergovie is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gergovie plateau and Le Crest.
Gergovie plateau
Locality
The Gergovie plateau is a plateau of the Massif Central located 10 km to the south of Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France and is named after the nearby village of Gergovie.
Le Crest
Village
Le Crest is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France. It is part of the urban area of Clermont-Ferrand. Originally, it was a market village in a rural area known for viticulture and other agricultural crops. Le Crest is situated 3 km south of Gergovie.
Orcet
Village
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Orcet is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. Orcet is situated 4 km east of Gergovie.
Gergovie
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: La Roche-Blanche, Arrondissement of Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude
45.71266° or 45° 42′ 46″ northLongitude
3.12551° or 3° 7′ 32″ eastElevation
547 metres (1,795 feet)Open location code
8FQ5P47G+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 639109117OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Gergovie” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Gergovia”
- Belarusian: “Герговія”
- Breton: “Gergovia”
- Bulgarian: “Герговия”
- Catalan: “Gergovia”
- Catalan: “Gergòvia”
- Chinese: “热尔戈维”
- Chinese: “熱爾戈維”
- Dutch: “Gergovia”
- Esperanto: “Gergovia”
- Esperanto: “Gergovie”
- Estonian: “Gergovia”
- French: “Gergòvia”
- French: “Gergovie”
- French: “Merdogne”
- German: “Gergovia”
- German: “Gergòvia”
- Italian: “Gergovia”
- Latin: “Gergovia”
- Lithuanian: “Gergovija”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mardònha”
- Polish: “Gergovie”
- Russian: “Герговия”
- Slovenian: “Gergòvia”
- Slovenian: “Gergovie”
- Slovenian: “Gergovija”
- Spanish: “Gergovia”
- Spanish: “Gergòvia”
- Swedish: “Gergovia”
- Swedish: “Gergovie”
- Turkish: “Gergovia”
- Ukrainian: “Герговія”
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