Canton of Belleville-sur-Meuse

The canton of Belleville-sur-Meuse is an administrative division of the Meuse department, northeastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Belleville-sur-Meuse.[1] It includes the six "destroyed villages", which were depopulated in the Battle of Verdun during World War I.

It consists of the following communes:[1]

  1. Abaucourt-Hautecourt
  2. Beaumont-en-Verdunois
  3. Belleville-sur-Meuse
  4. Bezonvaux
  5. Blanzée
  6. Bras-sur-Meuse
  7. Champneuville
  8. Charny-sur-Meuse
  9. Châtillon-sous-les-Côtes
  10. Cumières-le-Mort-Homme
  11. Damloup
  12. Dieppe-sous-Douaumont
  13. Douaumont-Vaux
  14. Eix
  15. Fleury-devant-Douaumont
  16. Gincrey
  17. Grimaucourt-en-Woëvre
  18. Haumont-près-Samogneux
  19. Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre
  20. Maucourt-sur-Orne
  21. Mogeville
  22. Moranville
  23. Moulainville
  24. Ornes
  25. Samogneux
  26. Thierville-sur-Meuse
  27. Vacherauville

References

  1. ^ a b "Décret n° 2014-166 du 17 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département de la Meuse | Legifrance". Retrieved 2017-07-10.


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