Sion

Sion

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. [Les Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau, in Pierre Jarnac, "Les Mystères de Rennes-le-Château: Mèlange Sulfureux" (CERT, 1994).]
*Sion Abbey or Syon Abbey, a medieval monastery in Middlesex, England
*Sion College, a body of Anglican priests in London, formerly containing a valuable libraryAmong 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

Notes

ee also

*Scion
*Zion (disambiguation)
*Sioni


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