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Meuse
Coat of Arms of Meuse
Location
Administration
Department number:	55
Region:	Lorraine
Prefecture:	Bar-le-Duc
Subprefectures:	Commercy Verdun
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	31
Communes:	498
President of the General Council:	Christian Namy
Statistics
Population	Ranked 88th
-1999	192,198
Population density:	31/km2
Land area¹:	6211 km2
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2.

Meuse (French pronunciation: [møːz]) is a department in northeast France, named after the River Meuse.

History

Meuse is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from the former provinces of Barrois (area of Bar-le-Duc) and Three Bishoprics (area of Verdun).

The department was one of the great battlefields of World War I; an important battle was fought in 1916 at Verdun.

Geography

Meuse is part of the current region of Lorraine and is surrounded by the French departments of Ardennes, Marne, Haute-Marne, Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle, and Belgium on the north.

The important rivers are the following:

• Meuse
• Aire
• Chiers
• Ornain
• Saulx
• Orge
• Ognon
• Vaise

Demographics

The population has decreased sharply since the 19th century, with the rural exodus to the cities.

See also

• Cantons of the Meuse department
• Communes of the Meuse department
• Arrondissements of the Meuse department

External links

• (French) Prefecture website
• (French) General council website
• (English) Meuse Tourism Guide
• (French) Official Tourist Board website
• (English) Rhine-Meuse delta studies
• Bibliography on Water Resources and International Law Peace Palace Library

Coordinates: 49°00′N 05°20′E / 49°N 5.333°E / 49; 5.333

From LoveToKnow 1911

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• Meuse, France
• Meuse-Line
• Meuse River

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English

Proper noun

Meuse

1. (geography) A river in Europe that flows about 901 km (560 mi) from France through Belgium to the North Sea at the Netherlands.

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