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Meurthe-et-Moselle
Coat of arms of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department
Location
Administration
Department number:54
Region: Lorraine
Prefecture:Nancy
Subprefectures:Briey
Lunéville
Toul
Arrondissements:4
Cantons:44
Communes:594
President of the General Council:Michel Dinet
Statistics
PopulationRanked 28th
 -1999713,779
Population density:136/km
Land area:5246 km
French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km.
Meurthe-et-Moselle is a department in the northeast of France named after the Meurthe and Moselle rivers.

History

Meurthe-et-Moselle was created in 1871 at the end of the Franco-Prussian War from the parts of the former departments of Moselle and Meurthe which remained French territory. The current boundary between Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle was the border between France and Germany from 1871 to 1919.

Geography

Meurthe-et-Moselle is part of the region of Lorraine and is surrounded by the departments of Meuse, Vosges, Bas-Rhin, and Moselle and by the nations of Luxembourg and Belgium.

Its extends from north to south for 130 kilometers and between 7 and 103 kilometers from west to east.

The important rivers are the following:

Economy

The economy was highly dependent on mining until the 1960s. There are iron, salt, and lime extraction sites.

The urban area around Nancy has a very dynamic economy based largely on services, research, and higher education.

Demographics

The inhabitants of the department are called Meurthe-et-Mosellans.

The area around Nancy has become highly urbanized, whereas the Santois in the south is quite rural.

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Capital Metz
Regional President Jean-Pierre Masseret
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Commune of
Briey

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Longitude 05°57 E
Latitude 49°15 N

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Country  France
Arrondissement Briey
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Lunéville

Theater of Lunéville

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Country  France
Arrondissement Lunéville
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Toul is a historic fortified town of France, a sous-préfecture of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, with a population of 17,000.

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Toul is located between Commercy and Nancy, and situated between the Moselle River and the Canal de la Marne au
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The 4 arrondissements of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department are:
  1. Arrondissement of Briey, (subprefecture: Briey) with 10 cantons and 130 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 159,465 in 1990, and was 157,050 in 1999, a decrease of 1.51%.

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The following is a list of the 45 cantons of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, in France, sorted by arrondissement:

Arrondissement of Briey (10 cantons)

  • Audun-le-Roman
  • Briey
  • Chambley-Bussières
  • Conflans-en-Jarnisy
  • Herserange
  • Homécourt

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The following is a list of the 594 communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, in France.

(CUN) Communauté urbaine du Grand Nancy, created in 1995.



INSEE code Postal code Commune
54001 54610 Abaucourt
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only, excluding overseas departments and territories, as well as former French colonies and protectorates. Algeria and its départements, although they were an integral part of metropolitan France until 1962, are not included in the figures.
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Rank Department Population (2006) Size (km²) Density (pop./km²)
2 Paris 2,164,000 105 20,605
4 Rhône 1,646,000 3,249 507
6 Seine-Saint-Denis 1,459,000 236 6,182
8 Yvelines 1,395,000 2,284 611
10 Val-de-Marne 1,279,000 245 5,220
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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Origin Vosges mountains
Mouth Moselle
Basin countries France
Length 159 km
Source elevation 1190 m

Avg. discharge 20 m³/s
Basin area 3,085 km² The Meurthe
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Origin Vosges mountains
Mouth Rhine
Basin countries France, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium
Length 700km
Source elevation 715 m

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Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War (19 July 1870-10 May 1871) was a conflict between France and Prussia, which was backed by the North German Confederation and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria.
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Moselle

Coat of arms of the Moselle department
Location

Administration
Department number: 57
Region: Lorraine
Prefecture: Metz
(2 arrondissements:
Metz-Ville,

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Meurthe is a former département of France. Its préfecture (capital) was Nancy. It ceased to exist following the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany in 1871.
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Anthem
"Das Lied der Deutschen" (third stanza)
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