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Abbeville is located at 11] and has an elevation of 16 feet (4.9 m According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.7 square miles (14.7629 km 2), of which 5.7 square miles (15 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) (0.53%) is water.
Abbeville has the unique distinction of being both the birthplace and the deathbed of the Confederacy.On November 22, 1860, a meeting was held at Abbeville, at a site since dubbed "Secession Hill", to launch South Carolina's secession from the Union; [10] [11] one month later, the state of South Carolina became the first state to secede.
A map of Abbeville and the surrounding communes. Abbeville is located on the river Somme, 20 km (12 mi) from its modern mouth in the English Channel.The majority of the town is located on the east bank of the Somme, as well as on an island. [3]
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Both Abbeville County and the county seat, Abbeville, get their name from the town of Abbeville, France, the native home of an early settler. [4] [5] The county was originally part of Ninety-Six District, South Carolina, but was designated Abbeville County in 1785, with parts of the county later going to the creation of the counties of Greenwood and McCormick. [5]
Abbeville is a city in and the county seat of Henry County, in the southeast part of Alabama, United States. It is part of the Dothan, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area . At the 2020 census , the population was 2,358.
Starting in 2003, ' The Most Beloved Vietnam Television Dramas' Voting Contest (Vietnamese: Cuộc thi bình chọn phim truyền hình Việt Nam được yêu thích nhất) is held annually or biennially by VTV Television Magazine to honor Vietnamese television dramas broadcast during the year(s) on two channels VTV1-VTV3.
The arrondissement of Abbeville was created in 1800. [4] In January 2009 the canton of Oisemont passed from the arrondissement of Amiens to the arrondissement of Abbeville. [ 4 ] At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Somme, it received two communes from the arrondissement of Amiens, and it lost 38 communes to the ...