Tata of Chasselay
Tata of Chasselay is a cemetery in the city of Chasselay, Rhône including almost 200 graves of Senegalese Tirailleurs murdered during the Chasselay massacre of World War II.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: Senegalese war grave in France
- Also known as: “Chasselay National Cemetery”, “Senegalese Tata of Chasselay”, and “Tata sénégalais”
- Inscription: “En mai 1942, dans ce ‘Tata’ érigé par Jean MARCHIANI, secrétaire général de l’office départemental des mutilés, combattants, victimes de la guerre et pupilles de la nation, ont été rassemblés sous son contrôle les corps des gradés et soldats du 25e Rt de”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Église Saint-Roch des Chères and Town hall of Chasselay.
Église Saint-Roch des Chères
Church
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Église Saint-Roch des Chères is a church, which is situated 1¼ km northwest of Tata of Chasselay.
Town hall of Chasselay
Town hall
Town hall of Chasselay is situated 1½ km southeast of Tata of Chasselay.
Église Saint-Martin de Chasselay
Church
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Église Saint-Martin de Chasselay is a church, which is situated 1½ km southeast of Tata of Chasselay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Les Chères and Montluzin.
Les Chères
Village
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Les Chères is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.
Chasselay
Village
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Chasselay is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. The village is located between Lyon and Villefranche-sur-Saône. It is a relatively rural community without a train station.
Tata of Chasselay
- Categories: national necropolis in France and burial
- Location: Lissieu, Arrondissement of Lyon, Greater Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude
45.88231° or 45° 52′ 56″ northLongitude
4.75474° or 4° 45′ 17″ eastInception
1942Open location code
8FQ6VQJ3+WVOpenStreetMap ID
way 44098275OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q327945
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Tata of Chasselay” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “senegalese tata of Chasselay”
- Esperanto: “Tata”
- French: “nécropole nationale de Chasselay”
- French: “nécropole nationale du tata sénégalais”
- French: “Tata sénégalais de Chasselay”
- German: “Senegalesisches Tata bei Chasselay”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tata senegalés de Chasselay”
- Spanish: “Tata senegales de Chasselay”
- Spanish: “Tata senegalés de Chasselay”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Caval’form and Ehpad Val d’Or.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tata of Chasselay”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.