Sion
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Sion may refer to:
- A transliteration of Zion
In geography:
- Sion, Switzerland, the capital of the canton of Valais
- Sion, Gers, a municipality in France
- Sion, India, a suburb of Mumbai
- Sion, Netherlands, part of Rijswijk in South Holland
- Sion, Czech Republic, a castle in the Czech Republic, near Kutná Hora
- Sion Mills, a village in Northern Ireland
- Saxon-Sion, a municipality in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, France
- Sion-sur-l'Océan, a municipality in the Vendée department, France
In religion:
- Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Zion, a medieval monastic order founded by Godfrey de Bouillon in Jerusalem in 1090.
- Bishop of Sion, the head of the Diocese of Sion in Switzerland
- Congregation of Notre-Dame de Sion, a Roman Catholic missionary organization created in 1843 to convert Jews and Muslims throughout Europe and Palestine
- Priory of Sion, a French fraternal organization founded in 1956, and later given a bogus pedigree grafted onto the L'abbaye de Notre-Dame du Mont-Sion founded by Godfrey de Bouillon in Jerusalem in 1090. [1]
- Sion Abbey or Syon Abbey, a medieval monastery in Middlesex, England
Among people:
- Sion of Armenia, Catholicos of Armenia from 767 through 775
- Siôn, the Welsh form of John
Fictional characters:
- Sion Eltnam Atlasia - a character in the dōjin fighter series Melty Blood by Type-Moon and French-Bread.
- Darth Sion, a character in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
Sion can also refer to:
- Sion Kölsch, a type of beer
- Sion's minimax theorem, a mathematical result in game theory
[edit] Notes
- ^ Les Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau, in Pierre Jarnac, Les Mystères de Rennes-le-Château: Mèlange Sulfureux (CERT, 1994).

