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The region is typified by steep-sided valleys carved by swift-flowing rivers, the most prominent of which is the Meuse. Its most populous cities are Verviers in Belgium and Charleville-Mézières in France, both exceeding 50,000 inhabitants. The Ardennes is otherwise relatively sparsely populated, with few of the towns exceeding 10,000 inhabitants.
Ardennes (French: ⓘ) is a department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France named after the broader Ardennes. Its prefecture is the town Charleville-Mézières . The department has 270,582 inhabitants. [ 4 ]
Champagne-Ardenne (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃paɲaʁdɛn]) is a former administrative region of France, located in the northeast of the country, bordering Belgium. Mostly corresponding to the historic province of Champagne, the region is known for its sparkling white wine of the same name.
The concept of a natural park in the Ardennes region originated in the 1960s. Just two months after the decree establishing regional natural parks was published in March 1967, Christophe Ryelandt, in the Ardennes literary and artistic journal La Grive, proposed the creation of a "natural park of the Ardennes forest", with a particular focus on the northern part of the department and extending ...
1 Ardennes. 2 Aube. 3 ... This list of castles in Champagne-Ardenne is a list of medieval castles or château forts in the region in ... Wikipedia® is a ...
Charleville in 1625. Charleville and Mézières were originally separate communities on opposite banks of the Meuse, about 1.2 km (0.75 mi) from one another. [3]Charleville was founded by Charles Gonzaga, the 8th duke of Mantua, in 1606.
It is located in the Ardennes department, in the Grand Est region, northern France. It was created as Communauté d'agglomération de Charleville-Mézières-Sedan in January 2014 by the merger of the former Communauté d'agglomération Cœur d'Ardenne with 3 former communautés de communes and 12 other communes. Its seat is in Charleville ...
The arrondissement of Vouziers is an arrondissement of France in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region. It has 118 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 21,052 (2021), and its area is 1,412.2 km 2 (545.3 sq mi).