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Tourouvre
Sign in to saveTourouvre () is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Tourouvre au Perche.
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Place details
- Locality
- Tourouvre au Perche
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Population
- 1,667
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Key facts
- French commune.name
- Tourouvre
- French commune.image
- Tourouvre, Orne, église saint Aubin bu IMG 1520 IMG 1530.jpg
- French commune.caption
- Saint-Aubin church
- French commune.arrondissement
- Mortagne-au-Perche
- French commune.canton
- Tourouvre (chef-lieu)
- French commune.INSEE
- 61491
- French commune.postal code
- 61190
- French commune.commune
- Tourouvre au Perche
- French commune.elevation m
- 236
- French commune.elevation min m
- 180
- French commune.elevation max m
- 304
- French commune.area km2
- 24.01
- French commune.population
- 1490
- French commune.population date
- 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- delegated commune
- Official name
- Tourouvre
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Mortagne-au-Perche
- Population
- 1530
- Area
- 24.01
- Elevation
- 256
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Autheuil
- Image
- Tourouvre, Orne, église saint Aubin bu IMG 1520 IMG 1530.jpg
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- Commons category
- Tourouvre
- postal code
- 61190
- replaced by
- Tourouvre au Perche
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-12-31
- associated electoral district
- canton of Tourouvre au Perche
- P8168
- Tsagantegia
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Heraldry
- See also
- References
Tourouvre () is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Tourouvre au Perche.
The first photovoltaic road in the world was under construction in Tourouvre in November–December 2016. It was built by Société Nouvelle Aeracem (SNA), and dedicated by the French Minister of Ecology, Ségolène Royal on 25 October 2016. In 2019, Le Monde declared the experiment a failure.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tourouvre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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