Urville
Urville is a commune in the Calvados department and Normandy region of north-western France. Iron mining was an important industry in the village until 1989. The village was at the head of a mineral railway linking the iron mines to the SMN steel mills.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 743 residents
- Description: commune in Calvados, France
- Also known as: “14719” and “Urville, Calvados”
- Postal code: 14190
Places of Interest
Highlights include Polish War Cemetery and Pierre Tourneresse (Gouvix).
Polish War Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Entomolo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grainville-Langannerie Polish war cemetery is the only Polish Second World War cemetery in France. It is located 17 km south of Caen, Normandy, and contains 696 Polish war graves. It is one of seven military cemeteries now maintained by the French state.
Pierre Tourneresse (Gouvix)
Archaeological site
Photo: Roi.dagobert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pierre Tourneresse (Gouvix) is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cintheaux and Saint-Germain-le-Vasson.
Cintheaux
Village
Photo: Roi.dagobert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cintheaux is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Saint-Germain-le-Vasson
Village
Saint-Germain-le-Vasson is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Grainville-Langannerie
Village
Photo: Entomolo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grainville-Langannerie is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Urville
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.0255° or 49° 1′ 32″ northLongitude
-0.2951° or 0° 17′ 42″ westPopulation
743Elevation
98 metres (322 feet)Open location code
8CXX2PG3+5XOpenStreetMap ID
node 520372654OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6613788Wikidata ID
Q226410
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Urville” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Urville”
- Aragonese: “Urville”
- Armenian: “Յուրվիլ”
- Arpitan: “Urville”
- Asturian: “Urville”
- Bambara: “Urville”
- Basque: “Urville”
- Bavarian: “Urville”
- Breton: “Urville”
- Cajun French: “Urville”
- Catalan: “Urville”
- Cebuano: “Urville, Calvados”
- Cebuano: “Urville”
- Chechen: “УьгӀвиль”
- Chinese: “Urville, Calvados”
- Chinese: “Urville”
- Chinese: “于尔维尔”
- Chinese: “於爾維爾”
- Corsican: “Urville”
- Croatian: “Urville”
- Czech: “Urville”
- Danish: “Urville”
- Dutch: “Urville (Calvados)”
- Dutch: “Urville”
- Esperanto: “Urville”
- Estonian: “Urville”
- Faroese: “Urville”
- Finnish: “Urville”
- French: “Urville”
- Friulian: “Urville”
- Galician: “Urville”
- German: “Urville”
- Greek: “Υρβίλ”
- Hungarian: “Urville”
- Icelandic: “Urville”
- Ido: “Urville”
- Indonesian: “Urville, Calvados”
- Indonesian: “Urville”
- Interlingua: “Urville”
- Interlingue: “Urville”
- Irish: “Urville”
- Italian: “Urville”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Urville”
- Kabyle: “Urville”
- Kalaallisut: “Urville”
- Kazakh: “Yurvïlʹ”
- Kazakh: “Юрвиль”
- Kazakh: “يۋرۆىيل”
- Kongo: “Urville”
- Kurdish: “Urville, Calvados”
- Kurdish: “Urville”
- Ladin: “Urville”
- Latin: “Urville”
- Latvian: “Urville”
- Ligurian: “Urville”
- Limburgan: “Urville”
- Lithuanian: “Urville”
- Low German: “Urville”
- Luxembourgish: “Urville”
- Mainfränkisch: “Urville”
- Malagasy: “Urville”
- Malay: “Urville, Calvados”
- Malay: “Urville”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Urville”
- Minangkabau: “Urville”
- Narom: “Urville”
- Neapolitan: “Urville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Urville”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Urville”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Urville”
- Papiamento: “Urville”
- Picard: “Urville”
- Piemontese: “Urville”
- Polish: “Urville”
- Portuguese: “Urville”
- Prussian: “Urville”
- Romagnol: “Urville”
- Romanian: “Urville, Calvados”
- Romanian: “Urville”
- Romansh: “Urville”
- Russian: “Юрвиль”
- Sardinian: “Urville”
- Scots: “Urville”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Urville”
- Serbian: “Urville”
- Sicilian: “Urville”
- Slovak: “Urville”
- Spanish: “Urville”
- Swahili: “Urville”
- Swedish: “Urville, Calvados”
- Swedish: “Urville”
- Swiss German: “Urville”
- Tatar: “Юрвиль”
- Turkish: “Urville”
- Ukrainian: “Юрвіль”
- Uzbek: “Urville”
- Venetian: “Urville”
- Vietnamese: “Urville, Calvados”
- Vietnamese: “Urville”
- Vlaams: “Urville”
- Volapük: “Urville”
- Walloon: “Urville”
- Waray (Philippines): “Urville, Calvados”
- Waray (Philippines): “Urville”
- Welsh: “Urville”
- Wolof: “Urville”
- Yue Chinese: “Urville”
- Zulu: “Urville”
- “Urville”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Town hall of Urville and Salle Le Préau.
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