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    Longwy (French pronunciation: [lɔ̃wi]; older German: Langich, [ˈlaŋɪç]; Luxembourgish: Lonkech) is a commune in the French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle...
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  • Longwy station is a railway station serving the town Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle department, northeastern France. It is situated on the Longuyon–Mont-Saint-Martin...
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    Jacqueline de Longwy, Countess of Bar-sur-Seine (before 1520 – 28 August 1561), Duchess of Montpensier, Dauphine of Auvergne was a French noblewoman, and...
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    aciéries de Longwy (Longwy Steelworks Co.) was a steelworks located in Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. The Société des Aciéries de Longwy was founded...
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    The Château de Longwy is a ruined castle, incorporated into the town's fortifications, in the commune of Longwy in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département of...
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  • The canton of Longwy is an administrative division of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department, northeastern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton...
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  • Grand Longwy Agglomération (before September 2021: Communauté d'agglomération de Longwy) is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure...
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  • Métallurgique de Longwy (=Longwy Metal Sales Counter; often only named as “Comptoir de Longwy”) was a cartel of iron smelters seated in Longwy, a town in Lorraine...
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    Malicorne, and secondly, Jean IV de Longwy, Baron of Pagny, by whom she had three daughters. The youngest, Jacqueline de Longwy (died 28 August 1561), in her...
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    Claude de Longwy de Givry (1481–1561) was a French bishop and Cardinal, from an aristocratic background. He was the son of Philippe de Longuy, Seigneur...
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  • 1995, when she became Longwy town councillor. During her second term as town councillor, Jean-Paul Durieux resigned as mayor of Longwy on June 23, 2006, and...
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    posing as a wine merchant. He reported his findings to his superiors at Longwy on 7 May, understanding that the agents were to be used to seize key bridges...
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  • suo jure Countess of Bar-sur-Seine in 1522. She was the wife of Jean de Longwy, Seigneur of Givry, Baron of Pagny and of Mirebeau. Jeanne was born in Angoulême...
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  • The siege of Longwy was a military conflict during the Franco-Prussian War, which took place from January 16 to the 25th, 1871, in the Longwy which was near...
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    Blonde, Bitburg, La Roche-en-Ardenne, Durbuy, Arlon, Thionville, Marville, Longwy, and in 1264 the competing County of Vianden (and with it St Vith and Schleiden)...
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    French Revolution period. The ville neuve (meaning new city) is located in Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle. The entire new town was designed and built by Vauban...
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    the invasion began, with Brunswick's army easily taking the fortresses of Longwy and Verdun. The duke then issued on 25 July a proclamation called the Brunswick...
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    Longwy-sur-le-Doubs (French pronunciation: [lɔ̃vi syʁ lə du], literally Longwy on the Doubs) is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...
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    regretted his decision when it was discovered that the region of Briey and Longwy had rich iron-ore deposits.) The Moselle department ceased to exist on 18...
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  • 1130) was the daughter of William VII, Duke of Aquitaine and Ermensinde de Longwy.[better source needed] Around 1075 she married Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg...
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    Woëvre, eastern French Ardennes, Meuse, Meurthe-et-Moselle) Longovician (Longwy, Longuyon, northern Meurthe-et-Moselle) Gaumais (arrondissement of Virton...
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    Paris to Strasbourg A5 Paris to Langres A26 Calais to Troyes A30 Uckange to Longwy in N52 A31 Beaune to Luxembourg in A3 motorway (Luxembourg) A33 Nancy to...
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    addition to (until 1678) most of the present Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, and Longwy area in northern France. The (southern) Upper Guelders region consisted...
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    crossed into French territory on 19 August and easily took the fortresses of Longwy and Verdun. But at the Battle of Valmy on 20 September 1792 they came to...
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    July. There was a campaign against French fortresses that still held out; Longwy capitulated on 13 September 1815, the last to do so. Louis XVIII was restored...
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    daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier and Jacqueline de Longwy, Countess of Bar-sur-Seine. Her paternal grandparents were Louis de Bourbon...
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    the vast majority being common criminals. A response to the capture of Longwy and Verdun by Prussia, the perpetrators were largely National Guard members...
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  • This is a list of people who have acted as official executioners. In 1870 the Republic of France abolished all local executioners and named the executioner...
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    portraying steel workers for the offices of the Aciéries de Longwy, a steel mill in Longwy, France. Amiens Cathedral has a rare example of Art Deco stained...
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    Fortifications in Longwy, inscribed on the World Heritage list by UNESCO as part of the Fortifications of Vauban...
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