Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Saône-et-Loire
Arrondissement of Autun

Autun

Autun is a subprefecture of the department in the region of central-eastern . It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Roman capital to the Gallic people Aedui, who had as their political centre.
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  • Type: Town with 13,100 residents
  • Description: commune in Saône-et-Loire, France
  • Also known as: “Augustodunum” and “Bibracte”
  • Postal codes: 71400 and 71400

Places of Interest

Highlights include Autun Cathedral and Temple of Janus.

Church
Photo: Kokin, Public domain.
The Cathedral of Saint Lazarus of Autun, commonly known as , is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Autun and a national monument of . Famous for its Cluniac inspiration and its Romanesque sculptures by Gislebertus, it is a highlight of Romanesque art in Burgundy.

Photo: MarcJP46, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The "Temple of Janus" is a Romano-Celtic religious structure located in Autun, , , to the North-West of the ancient city of Augustodunum.

Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Autun

Latitude
46.951° or 46° 57′ 4″ north
Longitude
4.2989° or 4° 17′ 56″ east
Population
13,100
Elevation
325 metres (1,066 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“Bibracte”
United Nations Location Code
FR AUT
Open location code
8FR6X72X+CH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691895
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3035883
Wiki­data ID
Q190827
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Autun” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Autun”
  • Albanian: “Autun”
  • Arabic: “أوتون”
  • Aragonese: “Autun”
  • Armenian: “Օտյոն”
  • Arpitan: “Autun”
  • Asturian: “Autun”
  • Bambara: “Autun”
  • Basque: “Autun”
  • Bavarian: “Autun”
  • Belarusian: “Ацён”
  • Bengali: “ওতাঁ”
  • Breton: “Autun”
  • Cajun French: “Autun”
  • Catalan: “Autun”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat d’Autun”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat dAutun”
  • Cebuano: “Autun”
  • Chechen: “Отен”
  • Chinese: “Autun”
  • Chinese: “欧坦”
  • Chinese: “歐坦”
  • Corsican: “Autun”
  • Croatian: “Autun”
  • Czech: “Autun”
  • Danish: “Autun”
  • Dutch: “Augustodunum”
  • Dutch: “Autun”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوتون”
  • Esperanto: “Augustodunum”
  • Esperanto: “Autun”
  • Estonian: “Autun”
  • Faroese: “Autun”
  • Finnish: “Autun”
  • French: “Augustodunum”
  • French: “Autun”
  • French: “Bibracte”
  • French: “Fragny”
  • French: “Saint-Pierre-l’Étrier”
  • French: “Saint-Symphorien-lès-Autun”
  • Friulian: “Autun”
  • Galician: “Autun”
  • German: “Augustodunum”
  • German: “Autun”
  • German: “Autunois”
  • Greek: “Ωτέν”
  • Hebrew: “אוטן”
  • Hungarian: “Augustodunum”
  • Hungarian: “Autun”
  • Icelandic: “Autun”
  • Ido: “Autun”
  • Indonesian: “Autun”
  • Interlingua: “Autun”
  • Interlingue: “Autun”
  • Irish: “Autun”
  • Italian: “Augustodunum”
  • Italian: “Autun”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Autun”
  • Japanese: “オータン”
  • Japanese: “オータン市”
  • Kabyle: “Autun”
  • Kalaallisut: “Autun”
  • Kazakh: “Отен”
  • Kongo: “Autun”
  • Korean: “오툉”
  • Kotava: “Autun”
  • Kurdish: “Autun”
  • Ladin: “Autun”
  • Latin: “Augustodunum”
  • Latvian: “Autun”
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  • Limburgan: “Autun”
  • Lithuanian: “Autun”
  • Low German: “Autun”
  • Luxembourgish: “Autun”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Autun”
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  • Malay: “Autun”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Autun”
  • Minangkabau: “Autun”
  • Narom: “Autun”
  • Neapolitan: “Autun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Autun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Autun”
  • Norwegian: “Autun”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Autun”
  • Papiamento: “Autun”
  • Persian: “اوتن”
  • Picard: “Autun”
  • Piemontese: “Autun”
  • Polish: “Autun”
  • Portuguese: “Augustodunum”
  • Portuguese: “Autun”
  • Prussian: “Autun”
  • Romagnol: “Autun”
  • Romanian: “Augustodunum”
  • Romanian: “Autun”
  • Romansh: “Autun”
  • Russian: “Аугустодунум”
  • Russian: “Отен”
  • Russian: “Отён”
  • Russian: “Отюн”
  • Sardinian: “Autun”
  • Scots: “Autun”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Autun”
  • Serbian: “Autun”
  • Serbian: “Oten”
  • Serbian: “Отен”
  • Serbian: “Утан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Autun”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Oten”
  • Sicilian: “Autun”
  • Slovak: “Autun”
  • Slovenian: “Autun”
  • Spanish: “Augustodunum”
  • Spanish: “Autun”
  • Swahili: “Autun”
  • Swedish: “Autun”
  • Swiss German: “Autun”
  • Thai: “Autun”
  • Thai: “โอตุง”
  • Thai: “โอเติง”
  • Thai: “โอทุง”
  • Turkish: “Autun”
  • Ukrainian: “Отен”
  • Uzbek: “Autun”
  • Venetian: “Autun”
  • Vietnamese: “Autun”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Autun”
  • Welsh: “Autun”
  • Wolof: “Autun”
  • Wu Chinese: “欧坦”
  • Zulu: “Autun”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Autun”. Photo: Annekoelewijn, CC BY-SA 2.5.