Longuyon
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Location within Grand Est region
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| Coordinates: 49°26′52″N 5°36′05″E / 49.4478°N 5.6014°ECoordinates: 49°26′52″N 5°36′05″E / 49.4478°N 5.6014°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meurthe-et-Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Briey | |
| Canton | Longuyon | |
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| • Mayor (2014-2020) | Jean-Pierre Jacque | |
| Area1 | 29.7 km2 (11.5 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011)2 | 5,559 | |
| • Density | 190/km2 (480/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 54322 / 54260 | |
| Elevation | 203–389 m (666–1,276 ft) (avg. 218 m or 715 ft) |
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| Website | longuyon.fr | |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Longuyon is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France. The inhabitants are called Longuyonnais.
Longuyon is located at the confluence of the Chiers and Crusnes rivers 18 kilometres (11 mi) from Longwy. It is bordered on the north by the Belgian province of Luxembourg, just south of the Belgian village of Grandcourt.
The town is named after a "long ford" (from the Latin longa guada) that allowed crossing of the Chiers in Roman times. It was known as Longagio (634), Longio (973), Longione (973), monasterri longagionis (x century), Longuion (1209), Longion (1030), Longuio (1756).
Several Gallo-Roman sites were excavated in 1934 containing the remains of substructures and fragments of painted plaste. A necropolis of the later Roman Empire was excavated in 1843 in Magé.
The first mention of Longuyon (as Longagio) dates from 634. At that time there is already a chapel dedicated to Saint Agatha, which became a collegiate church in 1120, and later served as a barracks for the French soldiers in 1636.
The castle of Mussy, first mentioned in 1144, was razed in 1670 by the French occupation troops by order of Louis XIV.
Longuyon was a capital of the Bailiwick of Longuyon from June 1751 to 1789, then the capital of the Canton of Longuyon until March 2015.
In 1914 the town had 2,300 inhabitants. It was devastated on August 23–24 of that year by the Prussian infantry and 86 inhabitants, men, women, and children, were executed by firing squad.
Longuyon has long been an important railroad crossroads, located between the iron ore of the Briey basin and the coal mining area of the North.
The apartment blocks on the southwestern edge of town, still called "La Cité Canadienne", were home to Royal Canadian Air Force staff and their families in the 1950s and 1960s, when the RCAF had an airbase at nearby Marville. The street names still carry the names Toronto, Montreal, etc., and a totem pole was erected as a monument to the Canadian presence in Longuyon.
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