Bessan
Bessan is a commune in the Hérault department of the Occitanie region in France. Its inhabitants are known as 'Bessanais' in French.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 5,570 residents
- Description: commune in Hérault, France
- Postal codes: 34550 and 34550
Places of Interest
Highlights include Église de Saint-Pierre-es-Liens de Bessan and Moulin de Bessan.
Église de Saint-Pierre-es-Liens de Bessan
Church
Photo: Fagairolles 34, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Église de Saint-Pierre-es-Liens de Bessan is a church.
Roman Bridge
Ruins
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The Roman Bridge at Saint-Thibéry was a Roman bridge on the Via Domitia in southern France. The partly surviving structure crossed the river Hérault in Saint-Thibéry, 17 km east of Béziers. Roman Bridge is situated 3½ km north of Bessan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Agde and Pomerols.
Agde
Town
Photo: Awd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Agde is a resort town and commune in the southern French department of Hérault, Occitania. It is the Mediterranean port of the Canal du Midi. It is situated on an ancient basalt volcano, hence being nicknamed "Black Pearl of the Mediterranean". Agde is situated 6 km southeast of Bessan.
Pomerols
Photo: Fagairolles 34, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pomérols is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
Marseillan
Village
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Marseillan is a resort town and commune in the Hérault department in southern France. As of 2022, the population of Marseillan is 8,047. The port of Marseillan is a protected heritage site, and the altar and organ in the church are also listed. Marseillan is situated 8 km east of Bessan.
Bessan
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Bessan, Arrondissement of Béziers, Hérault, Occitanie, France, Europe
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Latitude
43.36068° or 43° 21′ 38″ northLongitude
3.42634° or 3° 25′ 35″ eastPopulation
5,570Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)United Nations Location Code
FR 3CGOpen location code
8FM59C6G+7GOpenStreetMap ID
node 1715105278OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bessan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bessan”
- Aragonese: “Bessan”
- Arpitan: “Bessan”
- Asturian: “Bessan”
- Bambara: “Bessan”
- Basque: “Beçan”
- Basque: “Bessan”
- Bavarian: “Bessan”
- Breton: “Bessan”
- Cajun French: “Bessan”
- Catalan: “Beçan”
- Catalan: “Bessan”
- Cebuano: “Bessan”
- Chechen: “Бессан”
- Chinese: “Bessan”
- Chinese: “貝桑”
- Chinese: “贝桑”
- Corsican: “Bessan”
- Croatian: “Bessan”
- Czech: “Bessan”
- Danish: “Bessan”
- Dutch: “Bessan”
- Esperanto: “Bessan”
- Estonian: “Bessan”
- Faroese: “Bessan”
- Finnish: “Bessan”
- French: “Bessan”
- Friulian: “Bessan”
- Galician: “Bessan”
- German: “Bessan”
- Greek: “Μπεσάν”
- Hungarian: “Bessan”
- Icelandic: “Bessan”
- Ido: “Bessan”
- Indonesian: “Bessan”
- Interlingua: “Bessan”
- Interlingue: “Bessan”
- Irish: “Bessan”
- Italian: “Bessan”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Bessan”
- Kabyle: “Bessan”
- Kalaallisut: “Bessan”
- Kazakh: “Bessan”
- Kazakh: “Бессан”
- Kazakh: “بەسسان”
- Kongo: “Bessan”
- Kurdish: “Bessan”
- Ladin: “Bessan”
- Latin: “Bessan”
- Latvian: “Bessan”
- Ligurian: “Bessan”
- Limburgan: “Bessan”
- Lithuanian: “Bessan”
- Lombard: “Bessan”
- Low German: “Bessan”
- Luxembourgish: “Bessan”
- Mainfränkisch: “Bessan”
- Malagasy: “Bessan”
- Malay: “Bessan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bessan”
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- Narom: “Bessan”
- Neapolitan: “Bessan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bessan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bessan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Beçan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bessan”
- Papiamento: “Bessan”
- Picard: “Bessan”
- Piemontese: “Bessan”
- Polish: “Bessan”
- Portuguese: “Bessan”
- Prussian: “Bessan”
- Romagnol: “Bessan”
- Romanian: “Bessan”
- Romansh: “Bessan”
- Sardinian: “Bessan”
- Scots: “Bessan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bessan”
- Serbian: “Besan”
- Serbian: “Bessan”
- Serbian: “Бесан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bessan (Ero)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bessan”
- Sicilian: “Bessan”
- Slovak: “Bessan”
- Spanish: “Bessan”
- Swahili: “Bessan”
- Swedish: “Bessan”
- Swiss German: “Bessan”
- Tatar: “Бессан”
- Turkish: “Bessan”
- Ukrainian: “Бессан”
- Uzbek: “Bessan”
- Venetian: “Bessan”
- Vietnamese: “Bessan”
- Vlaams: “Bessan”
- Volapük: “Bessan”
- Walloon: “Bessan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bessan”
- Welsh: “Bessan”
- Wolof: “Bessan”
- Yue Chinese: “Bessan”
- Zulu: “Bessan”
- “Bessan”
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