Arville is a former commune in the

Loir-et-Cher Loir-et-Cher (, ) is a Departments of France, department in the Centre-Val de Loire Regions of France, region of France. It is named after two rivers which run through it, the Loir in its northern part and the Cher (river), Cher in its southern p ...

department in central

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. On 1 January 2018, it was merged into the new commune of

Couëtron-au-Perche Couëtron-au-Perche is a commune in the department of Loir-et-Cher, central France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2018 by merger of the former communes of Souday (the seat), Arville, Oigny, Saint-Agil and Saint-Avit.

.Arrêté préfectoral
10 July 2017

Sights

Arville's 12th-Century

commandry In the Middle Ages, a commandery (rarely commandry) was the smallest administrative division of the European landed properties of a military order. It was also the name of the house where the knights of the commandery lived.Anthony Luttrell and G ...

now hosts a museum on the

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and the

Knights Templar The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a Military order (religious society), military order of the Catholic Church, Catholic faith, and one of the most important military ord ...

Population

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External links

The Commandry Official site
* Former communes of Loir-et-Cher Populated places disestablished in 2018 {{LoirCher-geo-stub

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