Vosges
The Vosges ( , ; german: Vogesen ; Franconian and gsw, Vogese) are a range of low mountains in Eastern France, near its border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the border, they form a single ...
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in northeastern
France
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. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Capavenir-Vosges, which was renamed
Thaon-les-Vosges
Thaon-les-Vosges (; before 2022: ''Capavenir Vosges'') is a commune in the Vosges department of northeastern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Thaon-les-Vosges, Girmont and Oncourt.
effective 2022. Inhabitants are called ''Oncourtois''.
Geography
The village is positioned some to the west of the village of
Thaon-les-Vosges
Thaon-les-Vosges (; before 2022: ''Capavenir Vosges'') is a commune in the Vosges department of northeastern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Thaon-les-Vosges, Girmont and Oncourt.
, and crossed by the little river Avière, itself a tributary of 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 ...