Brionnais
The Brionnais is an area in the south of the French region of Burgundy . It is there in the southwest of the Saône-et-Loire department .
Some municipalities in Brionnais have the addition "en-Brionnais" in their place names: Colombier-en-Brionnais , Ligny-en-Brionnais , Saint-Christophe-en-Brionnais , Saint-Didier-en-Brionnais , Saint-Germain-en- Brionnais , Saint-Laurent-en-Brionnais and Semur-en-Brionnais .
The name is said to derive from the Gallic tribe of the Brannoviken .
Web links
Commons : Brionnais - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Le Brionnais, de site en site: Sites historiques et informatiques qui contribuent à la splendeur du Brionnais (French)
- Brionnais / Charollais / Mâconnais
- Le Brionnais (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 ; P. 200.