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Verdun (/ v ɜːr ˈ d ʌ n / vur-DUN, UK also / ˈ v ɛər d ʌ n / VAIR-dun, US also / v ɛər ˈ d ʌ n / vair-DUN, French: ⓘ; official name before 1970: Verdun-sur-Meuse) is a city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department.
Verdun, town, Meuse département, Grand Est région, northeastern France, on the Meuse River. Most of the town is on the left bank, near the Citadel . Practically destroyed in World War I , Verdun was rebuilt with wide streets.
Battle of Verdun, (February 21–December 18, 1916), World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war; French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000.
Verdun, which today is the capital of freedom, was once one of the most horrifying battlefields of the Great War. From February to December 1916, during 300 days and nights French and German soldiers lived here a real "hell". The town of Verdun, in the Meuse département, is an old Gallic oppidum.
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Almost three-quarters of the French army fought at Verdun in 1916. It was a Franco-German battle but it also involved colonial forces. The sheer scope and violence of the fighting here made it one of the major battles of the First World War.
Visit Verdun (Grand-Est, France) Book hotels, flights, car hire. The town of Verdun is in north-east France, in the Grand-Est region (previously Lorraine) and about halfway between Reims to the west and Strasbourg to the east.
The Battle of Verdun (French: Bataille de Verdun [bataj də vɛʁdœ̃]; German: Schlacht um Verdun [ʃlaxt ʔʊm ˈvɛɐ̯dœ̃]) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse.
Visit Verdun in the Meuse department (Lorraine region) of France: tourist information, places to visit and attractions near Verdun.
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Perhaps the most powerful WWI sightseeing experience is located about 140 miles east of Paris at the battlefields of Verdun. It was here in 1916 that roughly 300,000 lives were lost in what's known as the Battle of 300 Days and Nights. The longest single battle of World War I, it left the landscape barren for decades.
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