Sedan

From French, from Medieval Latin Sedensi.

Sedan

1. A commune in Ardennes department, France, notable as the site of two major battles between France and Germany.
   • 1908–1910, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, Howards End, New York, N.Y., London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], published 1910, →OCLC:

     A hint of the truth broke on him after Sedan, when he saw the dyed moustaches of Napoleon going grey; another when he entered Paris, and saw the smashed windows of the Tuileries.

2. A rural town in Mid Murray council area, South Australia, 100 kilometres east of Adelaide, believed to be named by Lutheran settlers after Sedan, France.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Indiana.
   2. An unincorporated community in Appanoose County, Iowa.
   3. A small city, the county seat of Chautauqua County, Kansas. Named after the Battle of Sedan.
   4. A township in Chautauqua County, Kansas.
   5. A former community in South Arm Township, Charlevoix County, Michigan.
   6. A minor city in Pope County, Minnesota.
   7. A census-designated place in Gallatin County, Montana.
   8. An unincorporated community in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
   9. An unincorporated community in Union County, New Mexico, named after Sedan, Kansas.
   10. An unincorporated community in Scioto County, Ohio.
   11. An unincorporated community in Kiowa County, Oklahoma.
   12. An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia.

• Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France : étymologie de 35000 noms de lieux, 4 volumes, Genève, Droz, 1990-1998, Genève, Librairie Droz, 1998

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