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'''Sion''' may refer to:
* A transliteration of [[Zion]]
In '''geography''':
*[[Sion, Switzerland]], the capital of the canton of Valais
*[[Sion, Gers]], a municipality in France
*[[Sion, India]], a suburb of Mumbai
*[[Sion, Netherlands]], part of Rijswijk in South Holland
*[[Sion, Czech Republic]], a castle in the Czech Republic, near Kutná Hora
*[[Sion Mills]], a village in Northern Ireland
*[[Saxon-Sion]], a municipality in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, France
*[[Sion-sur-l'Océan]], a municipality in the Vendée department, France
In '''religion''':
*[[Abbey of Our Lady of Mount Zion]], a medieval monastic order founded by Godfrey de Bouillon in Jerusalem in 1090.
*[[Bishop of Sion]], the head of the Diocese of Sion in Switzerland
*[[Congregation of Notre-Dame de Sion]], a Roman Catholic missionary organization created in 1843 to convert Jews and Muslims throughout Europe and Palestine
*[[Priory of Sion]], a French fraternal organization founded in 1956, and later given a bogus pedigree grafted onto the L'abbaye de Notre-Dame du Mont-Sion founded by Godfrey de Bouillon in Jerusalem in 1090. <ref>Les Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau, in Pierre Jarnac, ''Les Mystères de Rennes-le-Château: Mèlange Sulfureux'' (CERT, 1994).</ref>
*Sion Abbey or [[Syon Abbey]], a medieval monastery in Middlesex, England
Among '''people''':
*[[Sion of Armenia]], [[Catholicos of Armenia]] from 767 through 775
*[[Siôn]], the Welsh form of John
'''Fictional characters''':
*[[Sion Eltnam Atlasia]] - a character in the dōjin fighter series ''Melty Blood'' by Type-Moon and French-Bread.
*[[Darth Sion]], a character in the video game ''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords''
'''Sion''' can also refer to:
* [[Sion Kölsch]], a type of beer
* [[Sion's minimax theorem]], a mathematical result in [[game theory]]
==Notes==
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==See also==
*[[Scion]]
*[[Zion (disambiguation)]]
*[[Sioni]]
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