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| Meuse department | |
| Capital | Bar-le-Duc |
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| Residents | 185.355 (2018) |
| surface | 6,211 km² |
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Meuse is a french Department in the region Grand Est (before 2015 Lorraine). The department with the serial number 55 owes its name to the river of the same name Meuse (German: Meuse). The department borders in the north Belgium (Wallonia), in the east Meurthe-et-Moselle, in the south to the départements Vosges and Haute-Marne. The departments close in the west Marne and Ardennes at.
places
- Bar-le-Duc is the prefecture (administrative seat) of the department.
- Commercy
- Verdun
Other goals
- w: Avioth in the Ardennes with its basilica Notre Dame
- w: Lachalade with the church of the former Cistercian abbey La Chalade.
background
The southwest of the department with Bar-le-Duc drains over the Ornain to the Marne, while the north with Verdun and the southeast with Commercy lie in the Meuse river basin. One of the bloodiest battles between the French and German armies took place around Verdun during the First World War, and it has left great devastation to this day. In the north, the department extends into the Ardennes and to Belgian Border.
