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Vauquois
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Vauquois is a commune in France, situated within the canton of Varennes-en-Argonne and the arrondissement of Verdun in the Meuse department. The area covers 8.14 square kilometers and has an elevation of 290 meters above sea level. It shares borders with Aubréville, Avocourt, Boureuilles, and Cheppy. The postal code for the commune is 55270.
The population is recorded as 49, comprising 9 males and 8 females, though another source lists the population as 26. Vauquois is associated with the electoral district of the canton of Clermont-en-Argonne. The commune received the Croix de guerre 1914–1918. Current weather data indicates a temperature of 20.56 degrees, humidity of 75 percent, pressure of 1030, and wind speed of 3.18.
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- French commune.name
- Vauquois
- French commune.commune status
- Commune
- French commune.image
- Vauquois La mairie.JPG
- French commune.caption
- The town hall in Vauquois
- French commune.image coat of arms
- Blason ville fr Vauquois (Meuse).svg
- French commune.arrondissement
- Verdun
- French commune.canton
- Clermont-en-Argonne
- French commune.INSEE
- 55536
- French commune.postal code
- 55270
- French commune.mayor
- Jean-Pierre Delandre
- French commune.term
- 2020–2026
- French commune.intercommunality
- Argonne-Meuse
- French commune.elevation m
- 318
- French commune.elevation min m
- 184
- French commune.elevation max m
- 290
- French commune.area km2
- 8.14
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- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Vauquois
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Verdun
- Population
- 23
- Area
- 8.14
- Elevation
- 221
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Cheppy
- Image
- Butte de Vauquois 2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Vauquois
- postal code
- 55270
- associated electoral district
- canton of Clermont-en-Argonne
- male population
- 9
- female population
- 8
- P8168
- Oleg Penkovsky
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-3-29-80-72-14
- fax number
- +33-3-29-80-72-95
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Vauquois () is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
During World War 1, Vauquois was the site of violent mine warfare, also in connection with the Battle of Verdun (1916). From 1915 to 1918, French and German tunneling units fired 519 separate mines at Vauquois, and the German gallery network beneath the village hill (the Butte de Vauquois) grew to a length of . Vauquois was destroyed and many huge craters and dugouts remain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vauquois” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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