Saône
Sign in to saveThe Saône ( , ; ; ) is a river in eastern France (modern region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté). It is a right tributary of the Rhône, rising at Vioménil in the Vosges department and joining the Rhône in Lyon, at the southern end of the Presqu'île.
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The Saône is a river in eastern France that flows from the Vosges mountains to join the Rhône River at Lyon. As a major tributary of the Rhône, it has historically been an important waterway in the region's geography and transportation network.
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Article
13 sectionsContents
- Terminology
- Geography
- Departments and cities traversed by the Saône
- Main tributaries of the Saône
- Navigation
- Hydrology
- The lesser Saône (Petite Saône)
- The greater Saône (Grande Saône)
- Average flow rate
- Historic floods
- See also
- References
- External links
The Saône ( , ; ; ) is a river in eastern France (modern region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté). It is a right tributary of the Rhône, rising at Vioménil in the Vosges department and joining the Rhône in Lyon, at the southern end of the Presqu'île.
==Terminology== The name derives from that of the Gallic river goddess Souconna, which has also been connected with a local Celtic tribe, the Sequanes. Monastic copyists progressively transformed Souconna to Saoconna, which ultimately gave rise to . The other recorded ancient names for the river were and . The name Arar later gave rise to specific regional terms in historiography, created to designate various northern parts of historical Burgundy in relation to the river Saône. Depending on the point of view of a particular author, northern Burgundian lands were thus designated whether "on this side of Saône" () or "on the other side of Saône" ().