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River Iton
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Location within Normandy region
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| Coordinates: 49°01′N 1°09′E / 49.02°N 1.15°ECoordinates: 49°01′N 1°09′E / 49.02°N 1.15°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Normandy | |
| Department | Eure | |
| Arrondissement | Évreux | |
| Canton | Évreux-1, 2 and 3 | |
| Intercommunality | CA Évreux Portes de Normandie | |
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| • Mayor (2014–2020) | Guy Lefrand | |
| Area1 | 26.45 km2 (10.21 sq mi) | |
| Population (2008)2 | 50,777 | |
| • Density | 1,900/km2 (5,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 27229 /27000 | |
| Elevation | 58–146 m (190–479 ft) (avg. 92 m or 302 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Évreux (French pronunciation: [evʁø]) is a commune in the Eure department, of which it is the capital, in Normandy in northern France.
The city is on the Iton river.
In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century CE, was named Mediolanum Aulercorum, "the central town of the Aulerci", the Gallic tribe then inhabiting the area. Mediolanum was a small regional centre of the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis. Julius Caesar wintered eight legions in this area after his third campaigning season in the battle for Gaul (56-55 BC): Legiones VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII and XIV.
The present-day name of Évreux originates from the Gallic tribe of Eburovices, literally Those who overcome by the yew?, from the Gaulish root .
The first known members of the family of the counts of Évreux were descended from an illegitimate son of Richard I, duke of Normandy; these counts became extinct in the male line with the death of Count William in 1118. The county passed in right of Agnes, William's sister, wife of Simon de Montfort-l'Amaury (d. 1087) to the house of the lords of Montfort-l'Amaury. Amaury VI de Montfort-Évreux ceded the title in 1200 to King Philip Augustus, whose successor Philip the Fair presented it in 1307 to his brother Louis d'Évreux, for whose benefit Philip the Long raised the county of Évreux into a peerage of France in 1317.
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