CHALONS

The word "Chalons"' and variants can have several meanings:

★ 'Chalons' or 'Châlons' is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:


Châlons, in the Isère ''département''


Châlons-en-Champagne, formerly 'Châlons-sur-Marne', in the Marne ''département''


Chalon-sur-Saône, in the Saône-et-Loire ''département''

★ 'Chalon' (''plural Chalons''), is a name for Native Americans who lived in Salinas Valley, Northern California.

★ 'Chalone AVA' is an American Viticultural Area in the same region

★ A hormone that inhibits rather than stimulates is called a 'chalone'.
See also:

★ 'Battle of Chalons' of 451 between Attila the Hun and the Roman general Flavius Aetius.

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