| Commune of Soissons | | Country | France | | Région | Picardie | | Département | Aisne | | Arrondissement | Soissons | | Canton | Chief town of 2 cantons | | Intercommunality | Communauté
d'agglomération
du Soissonnais | Mayor
Term of office | Édith Errasti
2001-2008 | | Land area¹ | 12.32 km² | Population²
(1999) | 29,453 | Population density
(1999) | 2,390 pers./km² | | Longitude | 03° 19' 25" E | | Latitude | 49° 22' 54" N | | Altitude | average: 55 m
minimum: 38 m
maximum: 130 m | | INSEE Code | 02722 | | Postal code | 02200 | 1 French Land Register data, which exclude lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) as well as the estuaries of rivers.
2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personnel). Image File history File links Flag_of_France. ...
France is divided into 26 régions: 21 of these are in the continental part of metropolitan France, one is Corse on the island of Corsica (although strictly speaking Corse is in fact a territorial collectivity, not a région, but is referred to as a région in common...
Capital Amiens Land area¹ 19,399 km² Regional President Claude Gewerc (PS) (since 2004) Population - Jan. ...
Template:France divisions levels, Junkyard Willie The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ...
Aisne is a département in the northern part of France named after the Aisne River. ...
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The arrondissement of Soissons is an arrondissement of France, located in the Aisne département, in the Picardie région. ...
The canton is an administrative division of France. ...
The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, meaning a gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...
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| Soissons is a town and commune in the Aisne département, Picardie, France, located on the Aisne River, about 60 miles northeast of Paris. It is one of the most ancient towns of France, and is probably the ancient capital of the Suessiones. The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, meaning a gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. ...
Aisne is a département in the northern part of France named after the Aisne River. ...
Template:France divisions levels, Junkyard Willie The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to British counties. ...
Capital Amiens Land area¹ 19,399 km² Regional President Claude Gewerc (PS) (since 2004) Population - Jan. ...
Aisne is a river in France, tributary of the river Oise. ...
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The Suessiones (or perhaps Suessones) were a Belgic people of north-eastern Gaul in the 1st century BC, inhabiting the region between the Oise and the Marne, based around the present-day city of Soissons. ...
History
Its Latin name was Noviodunum; from 457 to 486, under Aegidius and his son Syagrius, Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons," until it fell to the Frankish king Clovis I in the Battle of Soissons. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
Events February 7 - Leo I becomes East Roman emperor. ...
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Aegidius (unknown - 464) was the magister militum per Gallias during the reign of the Roman emperor Majorian, and in the chaos of Gaul in the middle of the fifth century preserved a Gallo-Roman rump state in the region surrounding Soissons. ...
The captured Syagrius is brought before Alaric II who orders him sent to Clovis I Syagrius (died 487) was the son of Aegidius, the last Roman magister militum per Gallias, who had preserved a rump state around Soissons after the collapse of central rule in the western empire. ...
In the Late Classical period, two states in the area of modern-day northwest France were termed the Kingdom of Soissons: Roman Soissons (c. ...
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Non-contemporary coin with obverse legend Clovis Roy de France Clovis I (or Chlodowech or Chlodwig, modern French Louis, modern German Ludwig) (c. ...
The Battle of Soissons in the year 486 was a milestone on the way of the Franks under Clovis I to establish themselves as a major power. ...
Part of the Frankish territory of Neustria, the Soissons region, and the Abbey of Saint-Médard, built in the 8th century, played an important political part during the rule of the Merovingian kings (A.D. 447-751). After the death of Clovis I in 511, Soissons was made the capital of one of the four kingdoms into which his states were divided. Eventually, the kingdom of Soissons disappeared in 613 when the Frankish lands were amalgamated under Clotaire II. Neustria & Austrasia The territory of Neustria originated in A.D. 511, made up of the regions from Aquitaine to the English Channel, approximating most of the north of present-day France, with Paris and Soissons as its main cities. ...
(7th century — 8th century — 9th century — other centuries) Events The Iberian peninsula is taken by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost 8 centuries of Muslim presence there. ...
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Events Synod of Toledo: The filioque clause is added to the Nicene Creed Merovech becomes king of the Franks Battle of the Utus: Attila the Hun meets the Eastern Romans in an indecisive battle. ...
Events Pippin the Short is elected as king of the Franks by the Frankish nobility, marking the end of the Merovingian and beginning of the Carolingian dynasty. ...
Non-contemporary coin with obverse legend Clovis Roy de France Clovis I (or Chlodowech or Chlodwig, modern French Louis, modern German Ludwig) (c. ...
Events Frankish kingdom split in four after the death of Clovis I; Childebert I becomes king of Paris, Clotaire I becomes king of Soissons, Chlodomer becomes king of Orléans, and Theuderic I becomes king of Reims and Austrasia. ...
Events Clotaire II reunites the Frankish kingdoms by ordering the murder of Sigebert II. Saint Columbanus founds the monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy. ...
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Clotaire II (584-629), King of Neustria, and from 613-629 King of all the Franks, was not yet born when his father, King Chilperic I died in 584. ...
In 744 the Synod of Soissons met at the instigation of Pippin III, and Saint Boniface, the Pope's missionary to pagan Germany, secured the condemnation of the Frankish bishop Adalbert and the Irish missionary Clement. Events February - Hildeprand succeeds Liutprand as king of the Lombards. ...
Pepin III (714 - September 24, 768) more often known as Pepin the Short (French, Pépin le Bref; German, Pippin der Kleine), was a King of the Franks (751 - 768). ...
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Sights Today, Soissons is a commercial and manufacturing center with the 12th century cathedral of Saint-Gervais et Saint-Protais and Saint Jean Des Vignes Abbey as one of its most important historical buildings. (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ...
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Saints Gervasius and Protasius (also Gervase and Protase, and in French Gervais and Protais) were Christian martyrs, probably of the 2nd century. ...
Saint Jean Des Vignes Abbey was founded in 1076 by Hughes Le Blanc. ...
Miscellaneous Soissons is the birth place of: Aurore Clément (born October 12, 1945) is a French actress. ...
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See also For other uses, see Franks (disambiguation). ...
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The Battle of Soissons can refer to one of several important historical battles, all of which took place in the vicinity of the French town Soissons. ...
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