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French illustration of the road during the battle of Verdun Map of Voie Sacrée, France. The Voie Sacrée ("Sacred Way") is a road that connects Bar-le-Duc to Verdun , France. It was given its name because of the vital role it played during the Battle of Verdun in World War I.
Verdun (/ v ɜːr ˈ d ʌ n / vur-DUN, [3] UK also / ˈ v ɛər d ʌ n / VAIR-dun; [4] US also / v ɛər ˈ d ʌ n / vair-DUN, [5] 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.
Fort Vaux (French: Fort de Vaux), in Vaux-Devant-Damloup, Meuse, France, was a polygonal fort forming part of the ring of 19 large defensive works intended to protect the city of Verdun. Built from 1881 to 1884 for 1,500,000 francs, it housed a garrison of 150 men.
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.
The contemporary West Frankish Annales Bertiniani describes Charles arriving at Verdun, "where the distribution of portions" took place. After describing the portions of his brothers, Lothair the Emperor ( Middle Francia ) and Louis the German ( East Francia ), he notes that "the rest as far as Spain they ceded to Charles". [ 7 ]
France, the great victor of this long conflict, expanded its territory eastward: Metz, Toul, and Verdun were recognized as de jure French after a century of de facto protectorate. France annexed part of Alsace, in particular the Landgraviate of Upper Alsace (formerly the County of Sundgau) and the cities of the Alsatian Décapole.
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic) – 1812: Client state of the First French Empire; existed 1805–1814: Southern Italy: 774 – 1860: While Charlemagne conquered the northern portion of the Lombard kingdom, the south remained separate, apart from a few periods of personal union, until the unification of Italy in the 19th century.
In the Treaty of Paris in 1947, France gained approximately 700 km 2 of territory from Italy, spread over the departments of the Alpes-Maritimes, Hautes-Alpes and Savoie. France-Italy Boundary after the Treaty of Paris, 1947. annexation of the Tende Valley, which had remained Italian when the County of Nice became French in 1860. The border ...