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ROMANS , a See also: town of See also:south-eastern See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:DrOme, 121 M. N.E. of See also:Valence on the railway to See also:Grenoble. Pop. (1906) town, 13,304; See also:Commune, 17,622. Romans stands on an See also:eminence on the right See also:bank of the See also:Isere, a See also:fine See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone
See also:bridge uniting it with Bourg-de-Peage (pop. 4668) on the other See also:side of the See also:river. Both towns owe their prosperity to their situation in the most fertile See also:part of the valley of the Isere. The See also:present See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church belonged to an See also:abbey founded in 837 by St See also:Bernard, See also:bishop of See also:Vienne. The See also:principal portal is a fine specimen of 12th-See also:century Romanesque, and the See also:lower part of the See also:nave is of the same See also:period; the See also:choir and the See also:transept are striking examples of the See also:style of the 13th century.
Romans has a tribunal of See also:commerce and a communal See also:college. Its See also:industries include tanning, See also:leather-dressing and See also:shoe-making, See also:silk-See also:spinning, See also:hat-making, See also:absinthe-distilling and oil-refining. There is See also:trade in walnuts, See also:walnut-oil, silk, See also:cattle, &c.
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