Place:Aveyron, France

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NameAveyron
TypeDépartement
Coordinates44.25°N 2.667°E
Located inFrance
Also located inMidi-Pyrénées, France    
Contained Places
Commune
Bozouls
Conques
Decazeville
La Couvertoirade
Laguiole
Millau
Rodez
Roquefort-sur-Soulzon
Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac
Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance
Villefranche-de-Rouergue
Inhabited place
Aubin
Aubrac
Aura Ventosa
Bessuéjouls
Bonneviale
Camarès
Cassuéjouls
Castelnau-Pégayrols
Cayssac
Clairvaux-d'Aveyron
Comberoumal
Combret
Entraygues-sur-Truyère
Espalion
Espeyrac
Flagnac
Golinhac
La Cavalerie
Laissac
Lapeyre
Lassouts
Marcillac-Vallon
Mostuéjouls
Mur-de-Barrez
Najac
Nant
Naucelle
Perse
Pont-de-Salars
Prades-d'Aubrac
Quins
Roquelaure
Réquista
Saint-Affrique
Saint-Amans-de-Lizertet
Saint-Côme-d'Olt
Saint-Eulalie-d'Olt
Saint-Rémy
Sainte-Eulalie-de-Cernon
Salles-Curan
Salles-la-Source
Sylvanès
Sévérac-le-Château
Tournemire
Vallon
Villeneuve-d'Aveyron
Vinnac
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Aveyron is a département in southern France named after the Aveyron River.

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History

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Aveyron is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790.

The first known historical inhabitants of the region were the Rutenii tribe, but the area was inhabited previously to this, boasting many prehistoric ruins.

During the medieval and early modern periods, and until the 1790s, the territory covered by Aveyron was a province known as Rouergue.

In 1817, a local prosecutor was assassinated. The sordid circumstances of his death, following which his body was found floating in the Aveyron River, led to the matter becoming publicised as a cause célèbre. Recent studies have indicated that he met his end on the initiative of a right wing royalist organisation known as the .

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