Pompey, Meurthe-et-Moselle
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Pompey () is a
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in the
Meurthe-et-Moselle Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a department in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. It had a population of 733,760 in 2019.department in north-eastern
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. The population was 4,871 in 2018. It is an industrial town (mainly steel industry), at the confluence of the rivers Moselle and Meurthe.


Notable people

* Nicolas-Antoine Nouet, born 1740 in Pompey, died 1811 in
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, astronomer * Marcel Le Bihan (1923-2009), ''resistant'' and former mayor of the commune * Hubert Haenel (1942-2015), politician and a member of the Senate of France


Astronomy

The
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18636 Villedepompey is named after the town.


See also

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Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department The following is a list of the 591 communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):Town's website
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