Givors, a town of France, in the department of Rhone, on the Gier and the Rhone, 13 m. S. of Lyons; pop. in 1866, 9,957. It has extensive glassworks and tanneries, brick yards, founderies, and silk factories. The place is important as a shipping point for coal. Near it the Givors-Gier canal, begun in 1765 and completed in 1781, joins the Rhone, which is thus connected with the Loire. In the vicin-ity are the ruins of the castle of St. Gerald and the convent of St. Ferreol.