Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in Southern France. Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone stati…Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in Southern France. Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone station has rail connections to Narbonne, Montpellier and Avignon. The name Maguelone is a variation of Latin "margarita", from Persian "margaritis" - in modern French the "marguerite" took its name from the precious stone. The ending is probably a misattribution: "-ita" is a common Romance feminine diminutive suffix, equivalent in meaning to the Occitan "-ona".
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