Place details
Place nameSoissons
Other namesNoviodunum, Augusta Suessionum
CountryFrance
Latitude49.383
Longitude3.333
SourceThesaurus of Geographic Names
Overview
Name derived from Suessiones, a Gaulish tribe; garrison town under Romans; seized by Clovis in 486; scene of Merovingian king Childeric III's deposition in 752; held by counts of Soissons under Capetian dynasty 987-1328; site of 12th- and 13th-century Gothic cathedral.
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