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Divodurum

Divodurum Mediomatricum

Place Type
inhabited place
Description
Fortified by Romans; sacked by Attila 5th cen.; prospered as free imperial city 13th cen.; taken by French along with Tour & Verdun 1552; surrendered to Germans in 1870 & was under German rule 1871-1918; reverted to France after World War I.
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Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Source
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998); Michel: Dictionnaire des Communes (1984); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);

Born

Charles Poërson (French, 1609-1667)

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