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Yonne.

A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Auxerre.

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Meaning & usage

name/jɒn/
  1. A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Auxerre.

  2. A left tributary of the Seine in central France, flowing through the departments of Nièvre, Yonne and Seine-et-Marne.

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French Yonne, from Latin Icaunis, presumably from Gaulish.

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