Relating to Avignon, a city in southern France; a person from Avignon.
From Avignon (French 'Avignon'), a city in Provence, with the suffix '-ese' (meaning 'of or from a place'), following the pattern of words like Genoese or Milanese.
Avignon is famous as the papal residence from 1309-1377, when popes ruled the Christian Church from this French city instead of Rome, making it a crucial but often-overlooked center of medieval European power.
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