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2 unusual facts about Avenches


Anextiomarus

Anextlomarus is also attested as a Gaulish man's father's name at Langres, and a feminine divine form, Anextlomara, appears in two other Gallo-Roman dedications from Avenches, Switzerland.

Avenches

It was the capital of the Avenches District until 1 September 2006 when it became part of the new district of Broye-Vully.


Bellerive

Bellerive, Switzerland, municipality in the district of Avenches in the canton of Vaud

Ernest Failloubaz

Failloubaz went to Paris at end of May 1910 to buy a Santos-Dumont Demoiselle and brought it immediately back to Avenches where he trained daily.

Marius Aventicensis

It has been frequently published — first by Chifflet in André Duchesne's Historiæ Francorum Scriptores, I (1636), 210-214; again by Migne in Patrologia Latina, LXXII, 793-802, by Theodor Mommsen in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Auctores antiqui, XI (1893), 232-9, and by Justin Favrod with a French translation: La chronique de Marius d'Avenches (455–581) (Lausanne 1991).


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