Commune in France

The commune (in French: commune, word appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, meaning a gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common) is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to US incorporated municipalities/cities. The closest equivlent to French communes in the U ...

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• Commune in France - Current debate
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• Commune in France - Most and least populous communes
• Commune in France - Largest and smallest commune territories
• Commune in France - Most elevated commune
• Commune in France - Communes furthest away from the capital city of France
• Commune in France - Shortest and longest commune names
• Commune in France - Names of communes other than in French
• Commune in France - Classification

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French communes were created at the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789-1790. Commune in France - Kingdom of France. Before the French Revolution, there existed nothing such as the communes we know today. The lowest level of administrative division was the parish (paroisse), and there were up to 60,000 of them in the kingdom of France. A parish was essentially a church, the houses around it (known as the village), and the agricultural land around the village. It should be remembered that Fran ...

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A commune is an administrative subdivision of various European (including Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, and the Scandinavian countries) and African countries, notably Senegal (formerly administered by France). Within its territory it is the modern heir of the Medieval commune. Commune is sometimes translated as "municipality"' or "township". It corresponds to ...

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(Overseas country) The status of pays d'outre-mer, projected for French Pacific dependencies, was finally never created. Since its status has no name and since its congress can make lois de pays, New Caledonia is sometimes called a pays d'outre-mer. The 2004 status of French Polynesia gives it this designation, but also recalls that it belongs to the category of collectivités d'outre-mer. The conseil constitutionnel has ...

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France also claims or controls a number of small, uninhabited islands in the Indian Ocean (Îles Éparses) and one remote island in the Pacific Ocean (Clipperton Island): French overseas departments and territories - Indian Ocean. Bassas da India Europa Island Glorioso Islands Juan de Nova Island Tromelin Island Many of these islands are contested with Madagascar. French overseas departme ...

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Commune can refer to various things: commune (subnational entity) of various European and African countries Commune in France, comprises cities, towns, and villages medieval commune, a social organization of the European Middle Ages Mir (social), a village community in czarist Russia A kibbutz, an Israeli collective community commune (intentional community) People's commune, an administrative division of China The Paris Commune (French Revolution), the governm ...

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Some of the designations for subnational entities are: Autonomous community - Autonomous communities of Spain Autonomous region - Political divisions of China Bailiwick - Channel Islands Bundesland - States of Austria, States of Germany Canton - Cantons of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cantons of Switzerland, Cantons of France City - Nelson, New Zealand (the only city in the country that is not part of a larger region) Commune - Commune in France, Comune of Italy Co ...

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Commune in France - Most and least populous communes. The most populous commune of the French Republic is the commune of Paris: 2,125,246 inhabitants in March 1999. There are six communes in the French Republic with no inhabitants at all. These six communes are on the battlefield of Verdun: Beaumont-en-Verdunois, Bezonvaux, Haumont-près-Samogneux, Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre, Cumières-le-Mort-Homme, and Fleury-devant-Douaumont. These villages were completely destroyed during the gruesome ...

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Commune in France - Total number of communes. As of 1 January 2004, there were 36,782 communes in France, 36,568 of them in metropolitan France and 214 of them overseas. This is a staggering number, much higher than in any other European country. This peculiarity is explained in detail in the history section below; briefly, French communes still largely reflect the division of France into villages or parishes at t ...

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