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Communauté Urbaine
Communauté urbaine (French for "urban community") is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the ''Metropolis'' (french: link=no, métropole). A ''communauté urbaine'' is composed of a city ( commune) and its independent suburbs (independent communes). The first communautés urbaines were created by the French Parliament on 31 December 1966. Originally there were only four, found in the metropolitan areas of Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon and Strasbourg. Later, others were created in other metropolitan areas. The purpose of the communautés urbaines was to achieve cooperation and joint administration between large cities and their independent suburbs. This step often followed failed attempts to merge the communes within a metropolitan area. The status of the communauté urbaine was modified by the Chevènement Law of 1999. Since the creation of the métropoles in 2011, several former communautés urbaines have become métropoles, for instance Nice, Strasbou ...
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Commune In France
The () is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, ' in Germany, ' in Italy, or ' in Spain. The United Kingdom's equivalent are civil parishes, although some areas, particularly urban areas, are unparished. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the municipal arrond ...
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Alençon
Alençon (, , ; nrf, Alençoun) is a commune in Normandy, France, capital of the Orne department. It is situated west of Paris. Alençon belongs to the intercommunality of Alençon (with 52,000 people). History The name of Alençon is first recorded in a document dated in the seventh century. During the tenth century, Alençon was a buffer state between Normandy and the Maine regions. In 1049–1051, William Duke of Normandy, later known as William the Conqueror and king of England, laid siege to the town, which had risen in support of the Count of Anjou along with two other towns of the Bellême estates, Domfront (then in Maine) and Bellême (held directly from King Henry I of France). According to Duke William's chaplain and panegyrist, William of Poitiers, the defenders of the fortress refused to surrender and mockingly waved animal hides from the castle walls, referencing William's lineage as the grandson of a tanner. In response to this, William had 32 prisoners of ...
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Communauté Urbaine Grand Paris Seine Et Oise
The Communauté urbaine Grand Paris Seine et Oise is the '' communauté urbaine'', an intercommunal structure, covering the western suburbs of Paris. It is located in the Yvelines department, in the Île-de-France region, northern France. It was created in January 2016 by the merger of the previous '' communautés d'agglomération'' Mantes-en-Yvelines, Deux Rives de la Seine, Poissy-Achères-Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Seine & Vexin and the '' communautés de communes'' Coteaux du Vexin and Seine-Mauldre. Its area is 504.7 km2. Its population was 417,556 in 2018.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE. 5 April 2022.
Its seat is in .
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Dunkirk
Dunkirk (french: Dunkerque ; vls, label=French Flemish, Duunkerke; nl, Duinkerke(n) ; , ;) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.Commune de Dunkerque (59183)
INSEE
It lies from the Belgian border. It has the third-largest French harbour. The population of the commune in 2019 was 86,279.


Etymology and language use

The name of Dunkirk derives from ' dune' or '' and 'church', thu ...
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Communauté Urbaine De Dunkerque
The Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque ( en, Dunkirk Urban Community) is the ''communauté urbaine'', an Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunal structure, centred on the Communes of France, city of Dunkirk. It is located in the Nord (French department), Nord departments of France, department, in the Hauts-de-France regions of France, region, northern France. It was created in October 1968.CU de Dunkerque (N° SIREN : 245900428)
BANATIC. Accessed 5 April 2022.
Its area is 299.9 km2. Its population was 195,917 in 2018, of which 86,865 in Dunkirk proper.Compara ...
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Le Creusot
Le Creusot () is a commune and industrial town in the Saône-et-Loire department, region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, eastern France. The inhabitants are known as Creusotins. Formerly a mining town, its economy is now dominated by metallurgical companies such as ArcelorMittal, Schneider Electric, and Alstom. Since the 1990s, the town has been developing its tourism credentials. Its main attraction is the Parc des Combes. The Creusot steam hammer is exposed as a tourist attraction in a square at the entrance to the town from the south. Le Creusot is also the second educational centre of the Bourgogne (after Dijon), with its IUT and the Condorcet university centre. History In 1836, iron ore mines and forges around Le Creusot were bought by Adolphe Schneider and his brother Eugène Schneider. They developed a business in steel, railways, armaments, and shipbuilding. The Schneider empire developed much of the town itself, until it was much reduced in the second half of the ...
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Communauté Urbaine Creusot Montceau
The Communauté urbaine Creusot Montceau is the '' communauté urbaine'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the cities of Le Creusot and Montceau-les-Mines. It is located in the Saône-et-Loire department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, eastern France. It was created in 1970.CU Le Creusot Montceau-les-Mines (N° SIREN : 247100290)
BANATIC. Accessed 5 April 2022.
Its area is 742.0 km2. Its population was 93,072 in 2018, of which 21,491 in Le Creusot and 17,897 in Montceau-les-Mines.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE. 5 A ...
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Caen
Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Comparateur de territoire
INSEE, retrieved 20 June 2022.
making Caen the second largest urban area in and the 19th largest in France. It is also the third largest commune in all of Normandy after and Rouen. It is located inla ...
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Communauté Urbaine Caen La Mer
The communauté urbaine Caen la Mer is the '' communauté urbaine'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Caen. It is located in the Calvados department, in the Normandy region, northwestern France. It was created in January 2017, replacing the previous ''Communauté d'agglomération Caen la Mer'' and two communautés de communes.Arrêté préfectoral
28 July 2016
Its area is 362.9 km2. Its population was 268,470 in 2018, of which 105,512 in Caen proper.


History

The communauté urbaine had its origins in the creation in 1990 of a ''District of Greater Caen'' (DGC) which consisted of 18 communes. Since then the grouping transformed itself in 2002 into an Agglomeration called the ''Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Caen'' ...
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Besançon
Besançon (, , , ; archaic german: Bisanz; la, Vesontio) is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerland. Capital of the historic and cultural region of Franche-Comté, Besançon is home to the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regional council headquarters, and is an important administrative centre in the region. It is also the seat of one of the fifteen French ecclesiastical provinces and one of the two divisions of the French Army. In 2019 the city had a population of 117,912, in a metropolitan area of 280,701, the second in the region in terms of population. Established in a meander of the river Doubs, the city was already important during the Gallo-Roman era under the name of ''Vesontio'', capital of the Sequani. Its geography and specific history turned it into a military stronghold, a garrison city, a political centre, and a relig ...
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Grand Besançon Métropole
Grand Besançon Métropole is the urban community, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Besançon. It is located in the Doubs department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, northeastern France. It was created in December 2000 ''Communauté d'agglomération Grand Besançon'', which was transformed into a communauté urbaine on 1 July 2019.Arrêté préfectoral
19 June 2019, p. 151 Its area is 528.6 km2. Its population was 194,382 in 2018, of which 116,775 (60%) in Besançon proper.Comparateur de territoire
INSEE. 5 April 2022.
Its budget is € 308 ...
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Arras
Arras ( , ; pcd, Aro; historical nl, Atrecht ) is the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department, which forms part of the region of Hauts-de-France; before the reorganization of 2014 it was in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The historic centre of the Artois region, with a Baroque town square, Arras is in Northern France at the confluence of the rivers Scarpe and Crinchon. The Arras plain is on a large chalk plateau bordered on the north by the Marqueffles fault, on the southwest by the Artois and Ternois hills, and on the south by the slopes of Beaufort-Blavincourt. On the east it is connected to the Scarpe valley. Established during the Iron Age by the Gauls, the town of Arras was first known as ''Nemetocenna'', which is believed to have originated from the Celtic word '' nemeton'', meaning 'sacred space.' Saint Vedast (or St. Vaast) was the first Catholic bishop in the year 499 and tried to eliminate paganism among the Franks. By 843, Arras was seat of the County of Artois ...
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