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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Grand Est
- Department
- Meuse
- Arrondissement
- Commercy
- Canton
- Saint-Mihiel
- Intercommunality
- Côtes de Meuse Woëvre
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Daniel Lombard
- Area
- 5.95 km (2.30 sq mi)
- Density
- 13/km (33/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 55353 /55300
- Elevation
- 226–376 m (741–1,234 ft) , (avg. 370 m or 1,210 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Montsec
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Commercy
- Population
- 76
- Area
- 5.95
- Elevation
- 251
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Richecourt
- Image
- Butte de Montsec.jpg
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- Commons category
- Montsec (Meuse)
- postal code
- 55300
- associated electoral district
- canton of Saint-Mihiel
- male population
- 44
- female population
- 41
- P8168
- Alberto Camenzind
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-3-29-90-42-83
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Encyclopedic overview
Montsec ( French pronunciation: [mɔ̃sɛk]) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Fighting in World War I and World War II took place in and around Montsec. The Montsec American Monument was built here during the 1930s by the American Battle Monuments Commission. The monument, dedicated in 1937, commemorates the American forces who fought in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel in World War I.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Montsec” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.