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GIVORS , a manufacturing See also: town of See also: south-eastern See also: France, in the department of Rhone, on the railway between See also: Lyons and St Etienne, 14 M
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S. of Lyon
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Pop
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(1906) 11,444
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It is situated on the right See also: bank of the Rhone, here crossed by a suspension See also: bridge, at its confluence with the Gier and the canal of Givors, which starts at See also: Grand Croix on the Gier, some 13 M. distant
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The chief See also: industries are See also: metal-working, See also: engineering-construction and See also: glass-working
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There are See also: coal mines in the vicinity
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On the See also: hill overlooking the town are the ruins of the chateau of St Gerald and of the convent of St Ferreol, remains of the old town destroyed in 1594
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