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, Mumbai, 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
• Sion College, a body of Anglican priests in London, formerly containing a valuable library

Among people:

• Sion of Armenia, Catholicos of All Armenians from 767 through 775
• Siôn, the Welsh form of John
• Maurice Sion, American game theorist

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

[edit] See also

• Scion
• Zion
• Sioni

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