Sion District Sion District The district of Sion is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a population of (as of ). It comprises the following municipalities: The blazon of the district coat of arms is "Per pale Argent two Mullets of Five Gules, and Gules." Sion has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks French (31,488 or 85.1%) as their first language, German is the second most common (1,878 or 5.1%) and Portuguese is the third (1,029 or 2.8%). There are 915 people who speak Italian and 20 people who speak Romansh. ,
Gheorghe Sion elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy. In Bucharest, he founded "Revista Carpaților" in 1860 and, together with V. A. Urechia, published "Transacțiuni literare și științifice" starting in 1872. His volumes included poetry ("Ciasurile de mulțămire a lui Gheorghe Sion", 1844; "Din poeziile lui Gheorghe Sion", 1857), plays ("Influința morală", 1869; "La Plevna!", 1878; "Dramatice", 1879; "Sărutarea", 1888), a travel book ("Suvenire de călătoria în Basarabia meridională", 1857), and memoirs ("Suvenire contimpurane", 1888). Gheorghe Sion Gheorghe Sion (May 22, 1822 – October 1, 1892) was a Moldavian, later Romanian poet, playwright, translator and memoirist. He was born in Mamornița