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Frouard () is a commune in the
Meurthe-et-Moselle Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a '' département'' in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. Its prefecture and largest city is Nancy and it borders the departments of Meuse to the west, Vosges to the south, ...
department in the region of
Grand Est Grand Est (; ) is an Regions of France, administrative region in northeastern France. It superseded three former administrative regions, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine, on 1 January 2016 under the provisional name of Alsace-Champagne-A ...
, north-eastern
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. It is located 10 km north of Nancy near the confluence of the
Moselle The Moselle ( , ; ; ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A sm ...
and Meurthe. It is noted for its Medieval
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; and was latterly a steel industry centre. It is today mainly known as an inland port, and rail/waterway node on the French Waterway Network. Frouard is joined by a bridge to
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on the opposite bank of the Moselle.


Population


Astronomy

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18635 Frouard is named after the town.


See also

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Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department The following is a list of the 591 communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):


References

Communes of Meurthe-et-Moselle {{Nancy-geo-stub