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Cherbourg-en-Cotentin is a maritime prefecture and a sub-prefecture of Manche. The merger makes it the most populous commune in the department, with 79,144 inhabitants as of 2018 (of which 35,545 in Cherbourg-Octeville ) [ 4 ] and the largest city of the department, ahead of the Saint-Lô prefecture, and the second-largest city in the region ...
Cherbourg [a] is a former commune and subprefecture located at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche.It was merged into the commune of Cherbourg-Octeville on 28 February 2000, [5] which was merged into the new commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin on 1 January 2016.
Cherbourg-Octeville (French: [ʃɛʁbuʁ ɔkt(ə)vil] ⓘ) is a former commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. [2] It was formed when Cherbourg and Octeville merged on 28 February 2000. [3] On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, [4] of which it became a delegated commune. [2]
The town known today as Coutances, capital of the Unelli, a Gaulish tribe, acquired the name of Constantia in 298 during the reign of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus. The base of the peninsula, called in Latin the pagus Constantinus , joined together with the pagus Coriovallensis centred upon Cherbourg to the north, subsequently became known ...
The long-planned fortification of the town was finally set in motion by Louis XVI of France. In 1776, he set up a commission to choose between Cherbourg, Ambleteuse or Boulogne as France's main strategic port for defence of the English Channel - this was headed by Suffren and also including Dumouriez (later governor of Cherbourg) and La ...
Joseph and One-Six flew to Afghanistan in March 2008 from Camp Lejeune, N.C., and on May 1, assaulted into a suspected Taliban stronghold in a town called Garmsir. There was little resistance. The Marines came home that October and 14 months later, in December 2009, they went again. This time was different.
The arrondissement of Cherbourg is an arrondissement of France in the Manche department in the Normandy region. It lies entirely on the Cotentin Peninsula and has 144 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 186,735 (2021), and its area is 1,643.9 km 2 (634.7 sq mi).
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.