Cravant () is a former
commune in the
Yonne
Yonne (, in Burgundian: ''Ghienne'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the river Yonne, which flows through it, in the country's north-central part. One of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté's eight con ...
department in
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...
in north-central
France
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. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune
Deux Rivières.
Arrêté préfectoral
26 April 2016
In 1423, during the Hundred Years' War
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, it was the site of the Battle of Cravant
The Battle of Cravant was fought on 31 July 1423, during the Hundred Years' War between English and French forces at the village of Cravant in Burgundy, at a bridge and ford on the banks of the river Yonne, a left-bank tributary of the Seine, ...
between Anglo-Burgundian and Franco-Scots forces.
See also
*Communes of the Yonne department
The following is a list of the 423 communes of the Yonne department of France
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References
Former communes of Yonne
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