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Igriș Abbey

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Igriș Abbey (Romanian: Mănăstirea Igriș; French: Abbaye de Hégerieux) is a former Cistercian monastery in Sânpetru Mare, Timiș County, Romania. The Igriș Abbey was founded in 1179 as a filial abbey of Pontigny. Here is attested the oldest library in the territory of present-day Romania.

Here was buried king Andrew II of Hungary and his second wife, Yolanda de Courtenay.

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Igriș Abbey Wikipedia