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Clovis may refer to:

  • The personal name of Germanic origin that primarily saw use in Europe before the year 1000 AD. Several locales and persons of historical importance have borne this name.
  • The ancestral cognate of the modern proper paronyms Louis (French), Ludwig (German), Ludovico (Italian) and Lodewijk (Dutch). Ancient variants of the name Clovis/Louis include Chlovis, Chlodwig, Chlodowic, Chlodowech and Hludowic.
  • In the Merovingian dynasty, three kings of the Salian Franks bore the name Clovis:
  • Two municipalities in the United States are called Clovis:
  • Clovis Dardentor, the central character of the homonymous fiction novel, written by Jules Verne
  • Clovis Sangrail, a character in the books of Saki (H.H.Munro)
  • Clovis culture, the Paleo Indian culture of North America that first appears in the archaeological record of North America around 13,500 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, first discovered near Clovis, New Mexico

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