Brion
Brion is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. The name comes from the Latin word Bria meaning fortress, and it is home to a ruined castle. Brion—Montréal-la-Cluse station has rail connections to Bourg-en-Bresse and Oyonnax.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 515 residents
- Description: commune in Ain, France
- Also known as: “01063” and “Brion, Ain”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nurieux station and Nantua Lake.
Nurieux station
Railway station
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Nurieux station is a French railway station located in the commune of Nurieux-Volognat, Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Established at an elevation of 484 meters, the station is located at kilometric point 33.468 on the Ligne du Haut-Bugey, between the stations of Cize—Bolozon and Brion—Montréal-la-Cluse.
Nantua Lake
Lake
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The Lac de Nantua is a glacial lake in the southern foothills of the Jura Mountains in the Haut-Bugey historical region, located between Nantua, Montréal-la-Cluse and Port in the department of Ain, France.
Brion–Montréal-la-Cluse station
Railway stop
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Brion–Montréal-la-Cluse station is a French railway station located in commune of Brion, Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The station is also within close proximity of the commune of Montréal-la-Cluse, for which it is jointly named after.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Montréal-la-Cluse and Béard-Géovreissiat.
Montréal-la-Cluse
Village
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Montréal-la-Cluse is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. It is located in the historical region of Bugey and its inhabitants are known as the Montréalais.
Béard-Géovreissiat
Village
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Béard-Géovreissiat is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Prior to 6 October 2008, it was known as Géovreissiat.
Nantua
Village
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Nantua is a commune in and subprefecture of the Ain département in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. The commune of Nantua comprises the glacial Lac de Nantua. Nantua is situated 4½ km southeast of Brion.
Brion
- Category: commune of France
- Location: Arrondissement of Nantua, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Brion” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Brion”
- Arabic: “بريون، أين”
- Arabic: “بريون، اين”
- Arabic: “بريون”
- Aragonese: “Brion”
- Armenian: “Բրիոն”
- Arpitan: “Brion”
- Asturian: “Brion”
- Azerbaijani: “Brion”
- Bambara: “Brion”
- Basque: “Brion”
- Bavarian: “Brion”
- Breton: “Brion”
- Buginese: “Brion, Ain”
- Buginese: “Brion”
- Cajun French: “Brion”
- Catalan: “Brion”
- Cebuano: “Brion, Ain”
- Cebuano: “Brion”
- Chechen: “БгӀион”
- Chinese: “Brion, Ain”
- Chinese: “Brion”
- Chinese: “布里永”
- Chinese: “布里翁”
- Corsican: “Brion”
- Croatian: “Brion”
- Czech: “Brion”
- Danish: “Brion”
- Dimli (individual language): “Brion”
- Dutch: “Brion (Ain)”
- Dutch: “Brion”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريون”
- Esperanto: “Brion”
- Estonian: “Brion”
- Faroese: “Brion”
- Finnish: “Brion”
- French: “Brion”
- Friulian: “Brion”
- Galician: “Brion”
- German: “Brion”
- Hungarian: “Brion”
- Icelandic: “Brion”
- Ido: “Brion”
- Indonesian: “Brion, Ain”
- Indonesian: “Brion”
- Interlingua: “Brion”
- Interlingue: “Brion”
- Irish: “Brion”
- Italian: “Brion”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Brion”
- Japanese: “ブリオン”
- Kabyle: “Brion”
- Kalaallisut: “Brion”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Brion”
- Kongo: “Brion”
- Korean: “브리옹”
- Kurdish: “Brion, Ain”
- Kurdish: “Brion”
- Ladin: “Brion”
- Latin: “Brion”
- Latvian: “Brion”
- Ligurian: “Brion”
- Limburgan: “Brion”
- Lithuanian: “Brion”
- Lombard: “Brion”
- Low German: “Brion”
- Luxembourgish: “Brion”
- Mainfränkisch: “Brion”
- Malagasy: “André Cortinovis”
- Malagasy: “Brion, Ain”
- Malagasy: “Brion”
- Malay: “Brion, Ain”
- Malay: “Brion”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Brion”
- Minangkabau: “Brion”
- Narom: “Brion”
- Neapolitan: “Brion”
- Northern Sami: “Brion, Ain”
- Northern Sami: “Brion”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brion”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brion”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Brion”
- Pampanga: “Brion, Ain”
- Pampanga: “Brion”
- Papiamento: “Brion”
- Persian: “بریون، ان”
- Picard: “Brion”
- Piemontese: “Brion”
- Polish: “Brion”
- Portuguese: “Brion”
- Prussian: “Brion”
- Romagnol: “Brion”
- Romanian: “Brion, Ain”
- Romanian: “Brion”
- Romansh: “Brion”
- Russian: “Брион”
- Sardinian: “Brion”
- Scots: “Brion”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Brion”
- Serbian: “Brion”
- Serbian: “Брион”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brion, Ain”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brion”
- Sicilian: “Brion”
- Slovak: “Brion”
- Spanish: “Brion”
- Swahili: “Brion”
- Swedish: “Brion, Ain”
- Swedish: “Brion”
- Swiss German: “Brion”
- Tagalog: “Brion, Ain”
- Tagalog: “Brion”
- Tatar: “Брион”
- Turkish: “Brion, Ain”
- Turkish: “Brion”
- Ukrainian: “Бріон”
- Uzbek: “Brion”
- Venetian: “Brion”
- Vietnamese: “Brion, Ain”
- Vietnamese: “Brion”
- Vlaams: “Brion”
- Volapük: “Brion”
- Walloon: “Brion”
- Waray (Philippines): “Brion, Ain”
- Waray (Philippines): “Brion”
- Welsh: “Brion”
- Wolof: “Brion”
- Yue Chinese: “Brion”
- Zeeuws: “Brion”
- Zulu: “Brion”
- “Brion”
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