Meuse
The Meuse ( , , , ; wa, Moûze ) or Maas ( , ; li, Maos or ) 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 ...
Grand Est
Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Grouss Osten;
Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administ ...
in north-eastern
France
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.
Since the end of the
Battle of Verdun
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in 1916, it has been unoccupied (official
population
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: 0), as have
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, Haumont ...
,
Beaumont-en-Verdunois
Beaumont-en-Verdunois () is a commune in the Meuse department of the Grand Est region of northeastern France.
Since the Battle of Verdun in 1916, the village has had no permanent residents (official population: 0), as is the case with other des ...
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. ...
.
History
During
World War I
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, the town was destroyed and the land made so uninhabitable that officials decided not to rebuild it. The site is maintained as a testimony to war and is officially designated a "village that died for France." It is managed by a municipal council of three members appointed by the prefect of the Meuse department.
See also
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Zone rouge (First World War)
The ''Zone Rouge'' (English: Red Zone) is a chain of non-contiguous areas throughout northeastern France that the French government isolated after the First World War. The land, which originally covered more than , was deemed too physically ...
*
List of French villages destroyed in World War I
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People
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Organizations
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