La Caine () is a

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in the

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in the

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in north-western

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History

A nunnery was founded at La Caine, probably in 1066.

World War II

Following the Allied Normandy Landings, the headquarters of

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was established in the Chateau at La Caine. The headquarters' new location was revealed to the British intelligence by

Ultra adopted by British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park. '' ...

's deciphering of German signals traffic. On 10 June 1944, aircraft of the RAF's

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bombed the village killing the German chief of staff and many other personnel. German communications equipment and vehicles were also destroye

Geography

La Caine is about 12 miles southwest 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,Préaux-Bocage Préaux-Bocage () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas ...

in the north,

Montillières-sur-Orne Montillières-sur-Orne (, literally ''Montillières on Orne'') is a commune in the Calvados department in northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2019 by merger of the former communes of Trois-Monts and Goupillière ...

in the northeast and east,

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in the southeast,

Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom (; known as Le Hom before 2022) is a commune in the department of Calvados, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Thury-Harcourt (the seat), Caumont-sur-O ...

in the south and Montigny in the west.

Demographics

The population changes are known through the population censuses carried out in the municipality since 1793. From 2006, the legal populations of the municipalities have been published annually by Insee.

Religion

La Caine has a small Roman Catholic church, the ''L'église Notre-Dame''.

History

World War II

Geography

Demographics

Religion

See also