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Briey
Sign in to saveBriey (; ) is a former commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in northeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Val de Briey.
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Briey is a former commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of France, located within the Grand Est region. It served as the capital of the arrondissement of Briey and the canton of Briey. The town had a population of 8,591 and covered an area of 27.13 square kilometers at an elevation of 323 meters above sea level. It bordered the communes of Moyeuvre-Grande, Avril, Les Baroches, and Homécourt.
Briey was twinned with Szczawno-Zdrój and Niederaußem. It received the Croix de guerre 1914–1918. The commune was dissolved on December 31, 2016, and replaced by Val de Briey. Its postal code was 54150, and it is associated with the canton of Pays de Briey.
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- Locality
- Val de Briey
- Region
- Grand Est
- Country
- France
- Population
- 5,200
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Key facts
- French commune.name
- Briey
- French commune.image coat of arms
- Blason Briey 54.svg
- French commune.image
- Remparts Briey.jpg
- French commune.arrondissement
- Briey
- French commune.canton
- Pays de Briey
- French commune.commune
- Val de Briey
- French commune.INSEE
- 54099
- French commune.postal code
- 54150
- French commune.elevation m
- 240
- French commune.elevation min m
- 200
- French commune.elevation max m
- 300
- French commune.area km2
- 27.13
- French commune.population
- 5511
- French commune.population date
- 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- delegated commune
- Official name
- Briey
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Briey
- Population
- 5674
- Area
- 27.13
- Elevation
- 273
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Capital of
- arrondissement of Briey
- Shares border with
- Valleroy
- Official website
- www.ville-briey.fr
- Image
- Remparts Briey.jpg
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- Commons category
- Briey (Meurthe-et-Moselle)
- twinned administrative body
- Niederaußem
- postal code
- 54150
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2016-12-31
- replaced by
- Val de Briey
- native label
- Briey
- associated electoral district
- canton of Pays de Briey
- P8168
- San Mateo County
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- Geography
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- Population
- Economy
- See also
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- External links
Briey (; ) is a former commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in northeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Val de Briey.
It is located both above and in a steep section of the valley of the river Woigot, five kilometers to the north of the autoroute that connects Strasbourg with Paris, and 22 km northwest of Metz. The population of the town itself has been around 5,000 since the 1960s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Briey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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