Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Verdun is the ''

communauté d'agglomération An agglomeration community (, ) is a consortium of communes in France, communes (municipality, municipalities) in France, created as a government structure by the Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Chevènement Law of 1999. It is one of four forms of co ...

'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

Verdun Verdun ( , ; ; ; official name before 1970: Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse (department), Meuse departments of France, department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department. In 843, the Treaty of V ...

. It is located in the

Meuse The Meuse or Maas is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. It has a total length of . History From 1301, the upper ...

department, in the

Grand Est Grand Est (; ) is an Regions of France, administrative region in northeastern France. It superseded three former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-A ...

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, northeastern

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. Created in 2015, its seat is in Verdun.CA du Grand Verdun (N° SIREN : 200049187)
BANATIC. Retrieved 4 November 2024. Its area is 300.9 km². Its population was 27,493 in 2019, of which 16,942 in Verdun proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

Composition

The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 25 communes: # Beaumont-en-Verdunois # Belleray # Belleville-sur-Meuse # Béthelainville # Béthincourt #

Bezonvaux Bezonvaux () is a commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region in northeastern France. History Since the end of the Battle of Verdun in 1916, it has been unoccupied (official population: 0) along with Beaumont-en-Verdunois, Haumo ...

# Bras-sur-Meuse # Champneuville # Charny-sur-Meuse # Chattancourt # Cumières-le-Mort-Homme # Douaumont-Vaux #

Fleury-devant-Douaumont Fleury-devant-Douaumont (, literally ''Fleury before Douaumont'') is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. During the Battle of Verdun in 1916 it was captured and recaptured by the Germans and French 16 times ...

# Fromeréville-les-Vallons # Haudainville #

Haumont-près-Samogneux Haumont-près-Samogneux (, literally ''Haumont near Samogneux'') is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. The capture of the town by the German Fifth Army began the Battle of Verdun during World War I in 191 ...

Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre () is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Since the end of the Battle of Verdun in 1916, it has been unoccupied (official population: 0) along with Bezonvaux, Beaumont-en-Verdunoi ...

# Marre # Montzéville # Ornes # Samogneux # Sivry-la-Perche # Thierville-sur-Meuse # Vacherauville #

References

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