The arrondissement of Boulay-Moselle is a former

arrondissement An arrondissement (, , ) is any of various administrative divisions of France, Belgium, Haiti, certain other Francophone countries, as well as the Netherlands. Europe France The 101 French departments are divided into 342 ''arrondissements' ...

of France in the

Moselle The Moselle ( , ; german: Mosel ; lb, Musel ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it jo ...

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

in the

Lorraine Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Gr ...

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. In 2015 it was merged into the new

arrondissement of Forbach-Boulay-Moselle The arrondissement of Forbach-Boulay-Moselle is an arrondissement of France in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region. It has 169 communes. Its population is 243,054 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissem ...

.Décret n° 2014-1721 du 29 décembre 2014 portant suppression des arrondissements de Boulay-Moselle, de Château-Salins, de Thionville-Ouest et de Metz-Campagne (département de la Moselle)
/ref> It had 96

communes An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ...

, and its population was 79,847 (2012).Populations légales 2012: 57 Moselle
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Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Boulay-Moselle, and their

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s, were:

History

The arrondissement of Boulay-Moselle was created in 1919.Historique de la Moselle
/ref> It was disbanded in 2015. As a result of the reorganisation of the

cantons of France The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the France, French Republic's Departments of France, departments and Arrondissements of France, arrondissements. Apart from their role as organizational units in relation to certain aspects ...

which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Boulay-Moselle were, as of January 2015: #

Boulay-Moselle Boulay-Moselle (; german: Bolchen, Moselle Franconian: ''Bolchin'') is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in northeastern France. The locality of Halling-lès-Boulay (German: ''Hallingen'') was incorporated in the commune in 1972. U ...

Bouzonville Bouzonville (; ; Lorraine Franconian: ''Busendroff'') is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in northeastern France. The localities of Aidling, Benting and Heckling are incorporated in the commune. It lies from Metz and the same ...

Faulquemont Faulquemont (; Lorraine Franconian: ''Folkenburch''; ) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Localities of the commune: Bonhouse (German: Bohnhaus), Chémery (a.k.a. ''Chémery-lès-Faulquemont'', incorpora ...

References

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