rhône in English

noun
1
a river in southwestern Europe that rises in the Swiss Alps and flows 505 miles (812 km) through Lake Geneva into France, then to Lyons, Avignon, and the Mediterranean Sea west of Marseilles, where it forms a wide delta.

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1. Rhône-Alpes

2. Dupuis was educated at Tarare (Rhône department).

3. It consists of modern alluvium from the Rhône and the Durance.

4. It extends over # communes of the Ardèche département in the Rhône-Alpes region

5. In 1915 the Cottin & Desgouttes factory manufactured aircraft motors for Gnome et Rhône.

6. It is being conducted in conjunction with Rhône-Alpes Motorways (AREA) and the French Fréjus Road Tunnel Company (SFTRF).

7. Abbo assisted Charles Martel and Childebrand in campaigning against Maurontus in 736 and 739 in the lower Rhône Valley.

8. Platinum-group minerals were discovered, during gold recovery, in the Durance river alluvium, near Peyrolles (Bouches-du-Rhône).

9. ECU 108.4 million for the section of the A43 linking the Fréjus road tunnel with the motorway network at Pont d'Aiton (Rhône-Alpes);

10. A study published in October 2012 suggests that the Tauredunum landslide triggered the collapse of sediments that had accumulated at the point where the River Rhône flows into Lake Geneva.

11. During a 2-D multi-channel seismic reflection survey on Lake Geneva in 1998, approximately 24 km of profiles were recorded with a 48 hydrophone streamer and an airgun to study the internal architecture of the Rhône River delta.

12. This plateau is home to ancient alluvial deposits, represented mainly by vast stretches of a gravel-sand mixture and of pebbles from the plio-quaternary (Villafranchian), brought by the Rhône and the Durance between Avignon and Montpellier.

13. Seven régions have been experimenting with the transfer of administration of the regional rail network since 1997: Alsace, the Centre-Val de Loire, Nord-Pas-de-Calais (the North), Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rhône-Alpes and the Pays-de-la-Loire (Loire Valley), and, since January 1999, Limousin.

14. My friends and my family dissuaded me from it: they told me that a play so localised, that put on show characters with such a particular accent, would certainly not be understood outside of Bouches-du-Rhône, and that in Marseilles itself it would be considered an amateur work.