Meuse department

Meuse
region	Grand Est
prefecture	Bar-le-Duc
Sub-prefecture (s)	Commercy Verdun
Residents	187,187 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	30 inhabitants per km²
surface	6,214.51 km²
Arrondissements	3
Community associations	16
Cantons	17th
Communities	499
President of the Department Council	Claude Léonard
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-55
Location of the department of Meuse in the region Grand Est

The Meuse [ MON ] ( "Meuse department") is the French department with the atomic number 55. It is in the region of Grand Est and after the river Maas (French. Meuse named). Its prefecture is Bar-le-Duc , sub-prefectures are Commercy and Verdun .

geography

The department borders on the Belgian province of Luxembourg in the north, the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the east, the Vosges and Haute-Marne departments in the south and the Marne and Ardennes departments in the west .

The main cities are Verdun , Bar-le-Duc , Commercy , Saint-Mihiel , Ligny-en-Barrois , Étain , Montmédy and Stenay .

The rivers in the Meuse department include the Maas , Aire , Chiers , Ornain , Saulx , Orge , Ognon , Orne .

history

The Meuse department is one of the 83 departments that were founded on March 4, 1790. The area previously belonged to the Duchy of Lorraine , its neighboring country Bar and the Duchy of Toul (one of the Trois-Évêchés ). It was divided into the eight districts of Bar-le-Duc, Clermont-en-Argonne, Commercy, Étain, Gondrecourt-le-Château, Saint-Mihiel, Stenay and Verdun. In 1800 the arrondissements of Bar-le-Duc , Commercy, Montmédy and Verdun were formed. The arrondissement of Montmédy was dissolved in 1926.

Its boundaries have hardly changed since its inception. In 1997 the town of Han-devant-Pierrepont was spun off from the Meuse department and added to the Meurthe-et-Moselle department .

The front line ran across the Meuse department during the First World War . The Verdun area was particularly hotly contested in 1916.

The department was part of the Lorraine region from 1960 to 2015 , which became part of the Grand Est region in 2016 .

Cities

The most populous municipalities in the Meuse department are:

city	Population (2017)	Arrondissement
Verdun	17,475	Verdun
Bar-le-Duc	14,985	Bar-le-Duc
Commercy	5,536	Commercy

Administrative division

The Meuse department is divided into 3 arrondissements , 17 cantons and 501 communes :

Communes and arrondissements in the Meuse department

Arrondissement	Cantons	Communities	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE
Bar-le-Duc	7th	110	59,399	1,452.45	41	551
Commercy	5	135	43,135	1,932.24	22nd	552
Verdun	9	254	84,653	2,829.82	30th	553
Meuse department	17th	499	187.187	6,214.51	30th	55

See also:

• List of communes in the Meuse department
• List of cantons in the Meuse department
• List of associations of municipalities in the Meuse department

Web links

Commons : Département Meuse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Département Meuse ( Memento of December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
• Prefecture of the Meuse department (French)
• Literature on the Meuse department in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ estrepublicain.fr accessed on May 8, 2015

Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '  N , 5 ° 23'  E