Figeac

Figeac is a commune in the southwestern French department of . Figeac is a sub-prefecture of the department.
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  • Type: Town with 9,770 residents
  • Description: commune in Lot, France
  • Also known as: “Fijac”
  • Postal code: 46100

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rosetta Stone and Champollion Museum.

Work of art
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The is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes.

Museum
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The is located in Figeac, , France. It houses a collection devoted to Figeac's most famous son, Jean-François Champollion. It was inaugurated 19 December 1986 in the presence of President François Mitterrand and Jean Leclant, secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Historic building
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is a historic building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Camburat and Capdenac-Gare.

Village
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is a commune in the department in south-western . is situated 4½ km northwest of Figeac.

Village
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is a commune in the department in southern . The old village of is directly west of , across the river . is situated 5 km southeast of Figeac.

Village
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is a commune in the department in south-western . is situated 7 km east of Figeac.

Figeac

Latitude
44.60923° or 44° 36′ 33″ north
Longitude
2.03243° or 2° 1′ 57″ east
Population
9,770
Elevation
199 metres (653 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“Ceint-d’Eau”
United Nations Location Code
FR FGA
Open location code
8FP4J25J+MX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26696970
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3018506
Wiki­data ID
Q207614
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Figeac” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Figeac”
  • Albanian: “Figeac”
  • Arabic: “فيجياك”
  • Aragonese: “Figeac”
  • Aragonese: “Fijac”
  • Armenian: “Ֆիլաժ”
  • Arpitan: “Figeac”
  • Asturian: “Figeac”
  • Azerbaijani: “Fijak”
  • Bambara: “Figeac”
  • Basque: “Figeac”
  • Bavarian: “Figeac”
  • Belarusian: “Фіжак”
  • Breton: “Fijac”
  • Bulgarian: “Фижак”
  • Cajun French: “Figeac”
  • Catalan: “Figeac”
  • Catalan: “Fijac”
  • Cebuano: “Figeac”
  • Chechen: “Фижак”
  • Chinese: “Figeac”
  • Chinese: “菲雅克”
  • Corsican: “Figeac”
  • Croatian: “Figeac”
  • Czech: “Figeac”
  • Danish: “Figeac”
  • Dutch: “Figeac”
  • Dutch: “Fijac”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيجياك”
  • Esperanto: “Figeac”
  • Esperanto: “Fijac”
  • Estonian: “Figeac”
  • Faroese: “Figeac”
  • Finnish: “Figeac”
  • French: “Figeac”
  • French: “Fijac”
  • Friulian: “Figeac”
  • Galician: “Figeac”
  • German: “Figeac”
  • German: “Fijac”
  • Greek: “Φιζάκ”
  • Hebrew: “פיז’אק”
  • Hungarian: “Figeac”
  • Icelandic: “Figeac”
  • Ido: “Figeac”
  • Indonesian: “Figeac”
  • Interlingua: “Figeac”
  • Interlingue: “Figeac”
  • Irish: “Figeac”
  • Italian: “Figeac”
  • Italian: “Fijac”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Figeac”
  • Japanese: “フィジャック”
  • Kabyle: “Figeac”
  • Kalaallisut: “Figeac”
  • Kongo: “Figeac”
  • Korean: “피작”
  • Kurdish: “Figeac”
  • Ladin: “Figeac”
  • Latin: “Figeac”
  • Latin: “Figiacum”
  • Latvian: “Figeac”
  • Latvian: “Fižaka”
  • Ligurian: “Figeac”
  • Limburgan: “Figeac”
  • Lithuanian: “Figeac”
  • Low German: “Figeac”
  • Luxembourgish: “Figeac”
  • Macedonian: “Фижак”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Figeac”
  • Malagasy: “Figeac”
  • Malay: “Figeac”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Figeac”
  • Minangkabau: “Figeac”
  • Narom: “Figeac”
  • Neapolitan: “Figeac”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Figeac”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Figeac”
  • Norwegian: “Figeac”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Figeac”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fijac”
  • Papiamento: “Figeac”
  • Persian: “فیژاک”
  • Picard: “Figeac”
  • Piemontese: “Figeac”
  • Polish: “Figeac”
  • Portuguese: “Figeac”
  • Prussian: “Figeac”
  • Romagnol: “Figeac”
  • Romanian: “Figeac”
  • Romansh: “Figeac”
  • Russian: “Фижак”
  • Sardinian: “Figeac”
  • Scots: “Figeac”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Figeac”
  • Serbian: “Figeac”
  • Sicilian: “Figeac”
  • Slovak: “Figeac”
  • Slovenian: “Figeac”
  • Spanish: “Figeac”
  • Spanish: “Fijac”
  • Swahili: “Figeac”
  • Swedish: “Figeac”
  • Swiss German: “Figeac”
  • Tagalog: “Figeac”
  • Tatar: “Фижак”
  • Turkish: “Figeac”
  • Ukrainian: “Фіжак”
  • Urdu: “فیجیک”
  • Venetian: “Figeac”
  • Vietnamese: “Figeac”
  • Vlaams: “Figeac”
  • Volapük: “Figeac”
  • Walloon: “Figeac”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Figeac”
  • Welsh: “Figeac”
  • Wolof: “Figeac”
  • Yue Chinese: “Figeac”
  • Zulu: “Figeac”
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