Thionville
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Location within Grand Est region
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| Coordinates: 49°21′32″N 6°10′09″E / 49.3589°N 6.1692°ECoordinates: 49°21′32″N 6°10′09″E / 49.3589°N 6.1692°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Moselle | |
| Arrondissement | Thionville | |
| Intercommunality | Portes de France-Thionville | |
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| • Mayor (Since 2014) | Pierre Cuny (LR) | |
| Area1 | 49.86 km2 (19.25 sq mi) | |
| Population (2010)2 | 41,015 | |
| • Density | 820/km2 (2,100/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 57672 / 57100 | |
| Elevation | 147–423 m (482–1,388 ft) (avg. 150 m or 490 ft) |
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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.
Thionville (French pronunciation: [tjɔ̃vil]; Luxembourgish: Diddenuewen; German: Diedenhofen [diːdn̩ ˈhɔfn̩ ]) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. The city is located on the left bank of the river Moselle, opposite its suburb Yutz.
The population of Thionville has increased mainly in the first half of the 20th century due to industrial development of the upper Moselle basin. The economic slowdown and the steel crisis of the 1970s affected the town and the surrounding area, causing population decrease.
Thionville was settled as early as the time of the Merovingians. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the region was inhabited by the Germanic Alamanni. It was known in the German of that era as Theudonevilla or Totonisvilla. King Pippin had a royal palace constructed here.
The Synod of Thionville was held here beginning on February 2, 835. It reinstated Emperor Louis the Pious and reversed his former conviction on crimes — none of which he actually committed — and deposed the Archbishop of Rheims, Ebbo. The Synod was composed of 43 bishops. On February 28, 835, in Mainz, Ebbo admitted that Louis had not committed the crimes of which he had been indicted and for which he had been deposed as Holy Roman Emperor.
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