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Encyclopedia > Martigny

There are a number of communes that have the name Martigny

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  • Martigny-Combe, Swiss commune in the canton of Valais.

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Martigny, Switzerland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (305 words)
Martigny is a small city in Switzerland, located in the canton of Valais at an elevation of 475 meters.
Martigny is located at a crossroad between Italy, France and Switzerland, one road linking this town over the Great St. Bernard Pass to Aosta (Italy), and the other one, over the "col du Trient" to Chamonix (France).
Oppidum or vicus were the earliest Celtic tribes of Véragres under the name of Octodure, which supplied Martigny's ancient name of Octodurus.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Joseph-Alexander Martigny (311 words)
Martigny published a corrected edition of his dictionary in 1877.
The publisher, Hachette, had intended the work to be part of the "Dictionnaire des antiquitiés grecques and romaines" of Daremberg and Saglio, but its importance made it an independent work.
Martigny published also a French edition of the "Bulletino de archaeologia" of De Rossi.
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