Verdun, France

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city commune of France

Verdun, France is a historic northeastern French city on the Meuse River, best known as the site of one of World War I’s largest and bloodiest battles.

Aliases (2)

Verdun ×9
Verdun battlefield ×2

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city → commune of France →
battleBelligerent	France → German Empire →
battleDateRange	1916 →
country	France →
elevationMaxMeters	358 →
elevationMinMeters	196 →
hasIndustry	food processing →
hasLandmark	Bishop’s Palace of Verdun → Cathedral of Verdun → Douaumont Ossuary → Fort Douaumont → Fort Vaux → Verdun Memorial → Victory Monument of Verdun →
hasMilitaryCemetery	Douaumont military cemetery → Fleury-devant-Douaumont necropolis →
hasNearbyDestroyedVillage	Beaumont-en-Verdunois → Bezonvaux → Cumières-le-Mort-Homme → Fleury-devant-Douaumont → Haumont-près-Samogneux → Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre → Ornes →
hasSpecialtyFood	dragées de Verdun →
hasTransport	Verdun railway station →
hasUNESCOTentativeSite	Funerary and memorial sites of the First World War (Western Front) →
historicalRegion	Lorraine →
INSEECODE	55545 →
isPrefectureOf	Meuse department →
knownFor	Battle of Verdun → World War I battlefield →
language	French →
locatedIn	Grand Est region NERFINISHED → Meuse department → northeastern France →
locatedInBasin	Meuse basin →
locatedInHistoricalEvent	Battle of Verdun →
locatedOn	Meuse River →
partOf	French Republic →
postalCode	55100 →
riverCrossingStructure	Pont Chaussée →
timeZone	Central European Summer Time → Central European Time →
twinnedWith	Friedberg, Hesse → Pforzheim → Salisbury → Sosnowiec NERFINISHED →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Danielle Mitterrand ("Verdun") → Mark Meadows ("Verdun") →	placeOfBirth
Meuse ("Verdun battlefield") →	contains
Maas ("Verdun") →	flowsThroughCity
Meuse ("Verdun") →	hasMajorTown
12th Army Group →	headquartersLocation
Fort Douaumont ("Verdun") →	locatedNear
Battle of Verdun ("Verdun") →	location
Douaumont Ossuary ("Verdun battlefield") →	overlooks
A4 motorway (France) ("Verdun") →	passesNear
Meuse ("Verdun") →	passesThrough
Meuse ("Verdun") →	subprefecture