Coligny, Ain

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Coligny
Commune
Town hall
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 46°22′59″N 5°20′46″E / 46.3831°N 5.3461°E / 46.3831; 5.3461Coordinates: 46°22′59″N 5°20′46″E / 46.3831°N 5.3461°E / 46.3831; 5.3461
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Bourg-en-Bresse
Canton	Saint-Étienne-du-Bois
Intercommunality	Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Bruno Raffin[1]
Area 1	16.87 km2 (6.51 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[2]	1,178
• Density	70/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	01108 /01270
Elevation	199–575 m (653–1,886 ft) (avg. 293 m or 961 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Coligny (Arpitan: Colignê) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.

Geography[]

The commune lies near Bourg-en-Bresse; the Solnan forms its southwestern border.

The god of Coligny.

Celtic background[]

Coligny is famed for its Celtic lunisolar calendar, the "Coligny calendar". The calendar, which dates from the turn of the 1st century, has been key in the understanding of the knowledge of astronomy among the Gauls, and also supplied interesting information about their language (e.g., their names for months and the words for "lucky" and "unlucky"). It was an engraved bronze tablet originally discovered as fragments in 1897.^[3] It is written in the Latin alphabet and it represents a five-year cycle composed of three years having twelve lunar months and two years (the first and third) having thirteen lunar months.

At the end of the 19th century a bronze statue was discovered in the town and has been christened the Dieu de Coligny (God of Coligny).

Population[]

Personalities[]

Coligny was the birthplace of Joseph Darnand (1897–1945), a French pro-Nazi traitor and leader of the Vichy French Milice.

Lexicographer and poet Marie-Marguerite Brun (1713–1794) was born in Coligny.

See also[]

• Communes of the Ain department

References[]

External links[]

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• The almanac of Coligny

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