Banneville-la-Campagne () is a

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in the

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in the

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of north-western

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. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Bannevillais'' or ''Bannevillaises''.

Geography

Banneville-la Campagne is located some 8 km east of the centre of

Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Sannerville. Access to the commune is by the D675 from Caen which forms the northern border of the commune as it goes east to

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. The D227 comes from Sannerville in the north and goes south through the village then continues to join the D225 south of the commune. The D225 comes from Troarn in the east and passes south-west through the eastern part of the commune and continues south to

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. The

A13 autoroute Autoroute 13, or ''L'Autoroute de Normandie'' links Paris to Caen, Calvados. The motorway starts in Paris at the Porte d'Auteuil, a former gate of the Paris walls, and ends at Mondeville's Mondeville 2 (Porte de Paris) exchange junction on the ...

(Autoroute de Normandie: Caen to Paris) passes through the heart of the commune and the village from west to east with the intersection with the A813 autoroute (Banneville-la-Campagne to Frénouville) on the south-western border of the commune. The nearest exit is Exit to the D675 just east of the commune. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Manneville in the south-west and Le Havre in the south-east. The commune is almost entirely farmland.Google Maps
/ref> The ''Ruisseau du Pont Bâle'' forms most of the eastern border of the commune as it flows north to join the ''Fosse du Val'' on the northern border of the commune. The ''Ruisseau de Banneville'' rises in the commune and flows east to join the Ruisseau du Pont Bâle as does the ''Cours de Guillerville'' in the south-east where it forms part of the southern border of the commune.

Toponymy

The name ''Banneville'' was attested as ''Magnevilla'' in 1198. The suffix ''-ville'' means in the old sense "rural domain" (cf. vilain), preceded by the

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personal surname Norse ''Barn'' meaning "child". The name is a

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with all the Barnevilles in Normandy. The complementary determinant ''-la-Campagne'' was attested from 1371Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, ''Etymological Dictionary of place names in France'', Larousse, Paris, 1963 and refers to the ''campagne de Caen'' (the Caen Plain). This term belongs to the Northern Norman dialect and equivalent to the central French ''champagne''. The Norman-Picard word ''campagne'' (

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) has been incorporated in standard French. The name allows it to be distinguished from Banneville-sur-Ajon, another town in Calvados. It is uncertain that it shares the same etymology. The form ''Barneville sur Ajon'' was already mentioned in 1371.

History

In 1828 Banneville-la-Campagne (30 inhabitants in 1821) absorbed Guillerville (100 inhabitants in the southeast of the territory) and Manneville (47 inhabitants in the south-west). During the

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Guillerville was attacked on 19 July 1944 by the British 3rd Infantry Division as part of

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as part of the taking of the town of

to the east. British tanks of the 27th Armoured Brigade faced the tanks of the

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and

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tanks of the 503rd battalion of heavy tanks. Guillerville was finally liberated in the operation but not Troarn.

Administration

List of Successive

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Demography

In 2017 the commune had 173 inhabitants.

Sites and monuments