Clovis may refer to:
People
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Clovis (given name)
Clovis is the modern conventional French (and thence English) form of the Old Frankish name (in runic alphabet) or *"Hlōdowik" or "Hlōdowig" (in Latin alphabet), equivalent to the modern forms Louis (French), Lodewijk (Dutch), Lewis (English ...
, the early medieval (Frankish) form of the name Louis
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Clovis I (c. 466 – 511), the first king of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler
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Clovis II
Clovis II (633 – 657) was King of Neustria and Burgundy, having succeeded his father Dagobert I in 639. His brother Sigebert III had been King of Austrasia since 634. He was initially under the regency of his mother Nanthild until her ...
(c. 634 – c. 657), king of Neustria and Burgundy and first of the
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Clovis III
Clovis III was the Frankish king of Austrasia in 675 and possibly into 676. A member of the Merovingian dynasty, he was a child and his reign so brief and contested that he may be considered only a pretender. He is sometimes even left unnumbered a ...
(reigned 675–676), king of Austrasia, considered a usurper by some
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Clovis IV
Clovis IV (c. 677–694/695) was the king of the Franks from 690 or 691 until his death. If the brief reign of Clovis III (675) is ignored as a usurpation, then Clovis IV may be numbered Clovis III.
A member of the Merovingian dynasty, Clovis wa ...
(c. 677–694), boy king of the Franks from 691 until 694
** Clovis (died 580), son of
Chilperic I and Audovera, assassinated by his father and stepmother
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Clóvis (footballer, born 1937)
Clóvis Pinheiro dos Santos (born 28 August 1937), known as just Clóvis, is a Brazilian footballer. He played in four matches for the Brazil national football team
The Brazil national football team ( pt, Seleção Brasileira de Futebol), ...
, Clóvis Pinheiro dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
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Clóvis (footballer, born 1970)
Clóvis Bento da Cruz (born 25 June 1970) is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a striker.
Career
Born in Barra do Garças, Clóvis is a youth prospect of América (SP), from where he became a professional footballer, competing for cl ...
, Clóvis Bento da Cruz, Brazilian football striker
Places
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Clovis, California
Clovis is a city in Fresno County, California, United States. The 2020 population was 120,124. Clovis is located northeast of downtown Fresno, at an elevation of 361 feet (110 m).
History
The city of Clovis began as a freight stop along the ...
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Clovis Unified School District
Clovis Unified School District is a public school system located in Clovis, California, with its headquarters located at 1450, Herndon Avenue, Clovis. Its 43 schools serve a student population of nearly 40,000 students in a geographic area cov ...
, serving Clovis and Fresno
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Clovis, New Mexico
Clovis is a city in and the county seat of Curry County, New Mexico. The city had a population of 37,775 as of the 2010 census, and a 2019 estimated population of 38,319. Clovis is located in the New Mexico portion of the Llano Estacado, in the ...
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Clovis Municipal School District
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Clovis Municipal Airport
Clovis Regional Airport is a city-owned, public-use airport located six nautical miles (7 mi, 11 km) east of the central business district of Clovis, a city in Curry County, New Mexico, United States. The facility opened in Apr ...
Archaeology
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Clovis culture
The Clovis culture is a prehistoric Paleoamerican culture, named for distinct stone and bone tools found in close association with Pleistocene fauna, particularly two mammoths, at Blackwater Locality No. 1 near Clovis, New Mexico, in 1936 a ...
, Paleo-Indian culture of North America
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Clovis point, the oldest flint tools associated with the North American Clovis culture
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Clovis comet
The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (YDIH) or Clovis comet hypothesis is a speculative attempt to explain the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) as an alternative to the long standing and widely accepted cause due to a significant reduction or shut ...
, a hypothetical impact event around 12,800 years ago
Other
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Clovis Dardentor'', 1896 fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne
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Clovis Sangrail, a character in the short stories of
Saki
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and cultu ...
, named because he was "so appallingly frank"
* Clovis, the main antagonist in the
1997 ''Blade Runner'' video game
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Clovis la Britannia
and its sequel series are Japanese anime made by Sunrise, directed by Gorō Taniguchi, and written by Ichirō Ōkouchi. The series focus around a former prince of the Holy Britannian Empire, Lelouch Vi Britannia, who obtains a mysterious power ...
, a character in the anime series ''Code Geass''
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Clovis Crawfish
Mary Alice Fontenot (April 16, 1910 – May 12, 2003), born in Eunice, Louisiana, was a noted author of regional children's books, best known for the Clovis Crawfish series published by Pelican Publishing, a collection of eighteen books fea ...
the lead character in the book series ''Clovis the Crawfish''
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Clovis Oncology, pharmaceutical company
See also
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Clovis High School (disambiguation)
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