Verdun

Verdun is a city in the department in , northeastern . It is an arrondissement of the department. In 843, the Treaty of Verdun, which divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms—considered the foundation of Germany and France—was signed there.
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  • Type: Town with 16,700 residents
  • Description: commune in Meuse, France
  • Also known as: “Vedun”, “Verdun sur Meuse”, “Virten”, “Wirten”, “Вердён”, “Верден (Мез)”, “וורדן”, “فردن”, “فيردان”, “베르덩”, “ヴェルデュン”, and “ベルダン”
  • Postal code: 55100

Places of Interest

Highlights: Gare de Verdun and Verdun Cathedral.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Church
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is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in the town of Verdun, Lorraine, .

Museum
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is a museum.

Verdun

Latitude
49.1589° or 49° 9′ 32″ north
Longitude
5.3867° or 5° 23′ 12″ east
Population
16,700
Elevation
220 metres (722 feet)
IATA airport code
GMG
UN/LOCODE
FR VRD
Open location code
8FX7595P+HM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691595
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2969958
Wiki­data ID
Q154748
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Verdun” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Verdun”
  • Albanian: “Verdun, Meuse”
  • Arabic: “فردان”
  • Aragonese: “Verdun”
  • Armenian: “Վերդեն”
  • Arpitan: “Verdun”
  • Asturian: “Verdun”
  • Azerbaijani: “Verden”
  • Bambara: “Verdun”
  • Basque: “Verdun”
  • Bavarian: “Verdun”
  • Belarusian: “Вердэн”
  • Belarusian: “Вэрдэн”
  • Breton: “Verdun (Meuse)”
  • Breton: “Verdun”
  • Bulgarian: “Вердюн”
  • Cajun French: “Verdun”
  • Catalan: “Verdun”
  • Cebuano: “Verdun, Meuse”
  • Cebuano: “Verdun”
  • Chechen: “ВегӀден”
  • Chinese: “凡尔登”
  • Chinese: “凡爾登”
  • Corsican: “Verdun”
  • Croatian: “Verdun”
  • Czech: “Verdun”
  • Danish: “Verdun”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Verdun”
  • Dutch: “Verdun”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فردان”
  • Esperanto: “Verduno”
  • Estonian: “Verdun”
  • Faroese: “Verdun”
  • Finnish: “Verdun”
  • French: “Verdun-sur-Meuse” (historical)
  • French: “Verdun” (historical)
  • Friulian: “Verdun”
  • Galician: “Verdun”
  • Georgian: “ვერდენი”
  • German: “Verdun”
  • Greek: “Βερντέν”
  • Hebrew: “ורדן”
  • Hungarian: “Verdun”
  • Icelandic: “Verdun”
  • Ido: “Verdun”
  • Indonesian: “Verdun”
  • Interlingua: “Verdun”
  • Interlingue: “Verdun”
  • Irish: “Verdun”
  • Italian: “Verdun”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Verdun”
  • Japanese: “ヴェルダン”
  • Jèrriais: “Verdun”
  • Kabyle: “Verdun”
  • Kalaallisut: “Verdun”
  • Kazakh: “Verden”
  • Kazakh: “Верден”
  • Kazakh: “ۆەردەن”
  • Kongo: “Verdun”
  • Korean: “베르됭”
  • Kurdish: “Verdun”
  • Ladin: “Verdun”
  • Latin: “Verodunum”
  • Latin: “Virodunum”
  • Latvian: “Verdena”
  • Ligurian: “Verdun”
  • Limburgan: “Verdun”
  • Lithuanian: “Verdenas”
  • Low German: “Verdun”
  • Luxembourgish: “Verdun”
  • Macedonian: “Верден”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Verdun”
  • Malagasy: “Verdun”
  • Malay: “Verdun”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Verdun”
  • Minangkabau: “Verdun”
  • Neapolitan: “Verdun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Verdun”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Verdun”
  • Norwegian: “Verdun”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Verdun”
  • Papiamento: “Verdun”
  • Persian: “وردن”
  • Persian: “وردون”
  • Picard: “Verdun”
  • Piemontese: “Verdun”
  • Polish: “Verdun”
  • Portuguese: “Verdun”
  • Prussian: “Verdun”
  • Romagnol: “Verdun”
  • Romanian: “Verdun”
  • Romansh: “Verdun”
  • Russian: “Верден”
  • Sardinian: “Verdun”
  • Scots: “Verdun”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Verdun”
  • Serbian: “Verden”
  • Serbian: “Вердан”
  • Serbian: “Верден”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Verdun”
  • Sicilian: “Verdun”
  • Slovak: “Verdun”
  • Slovenian: “Verdun, Meuse”
  • Slovenian: “Verdun”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وردون”
  • Spanish: “Verdún”
  • Swahili: “Verdun”
  • Swedish: “Verdun”
  • Swiss German: “Verdun”
  • Tatar: “Верден”
  • Thai: “แวร์เดิง”
  • Turkish: “Verdun”
  • Ukrainian: “Верден”
  • Urdu: “وردون”
  • Uzbek: “Verdun”
  • Venetian: “Verdun”
  • Vietnamese: “Verdun”
  • Vlaams: “Verdun”
  • Volapük: “Verdun”
  • Walloon: “Verdun”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Verdun, Meuse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Verdun”
  • Welsh: “Verdun, Ffrainc”
  • Welsh: “Verdun”
  • Western Frisian: “Ferdun”
  • Wolof: “Verdun”
  • Wu Chinese: “凡尔登”
  • Yue Chinese: “凡爾登”
  • Zulu: “Verdun”
  • “Verdun”

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