GIVORS, a town of France, department of Rhone, is situated on the Rhone and the canal of Rive-de-Gier, near the railway between Lyons and St Étienne, 14 miles south of Lyons. It has glass and tile works, potteries, tanneries, foundries, silk factories, and dyeworks, and is the principal entrepot for the coal and coke of the Gier valley. Near it are the ruins of the chateau of St Gerald and of the convent of St Ferréol. Population (1876), 10,856.