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Commune of Sarreguemines

View of the Saar River and the casino in Sarreguemines
Location
Sarreguemines (France)
Sarreguemines
Administration
Country France
Region Lorraine
Department Moselle (sous-préfecture)
Arrondissement Sarreguemines
Canton Chief town of 2 cantons
Intercommunality Communauté
d'agglomération
Sarreguemines Confluences
Mayor Céleste Lett
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Land area¹ 29. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Lorraine (Lothringen is one of the 26 régions of France. It is the only administrative region with two cities of equal importance Metz and Nancy In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Moselle is a ''département'' in the east of France named after the Moselle River. Subprefectures (sous-préfectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Sarreguemines is an arrondissement of France located in the Moselle département, in the Lorraine The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common 67 km²
Population²
(1999)		 23,202
 - Density 782. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume 0/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
Postal code 57200
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E
France

Sarreguemines (German Saargemünd) is a town and commune in the Moselle département, in Lorraine, northeastern France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Moselle is a ''département'' in the east of France named after the Moselle River. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Lorraine (Lothringen is one of the 26 régions of France. It is the only administrative region with two cities of equal importance Metz and Nancy This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. It is the chief town of an arrondissement. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts.

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Geography

Sarreguemines, whose name is a French spelling of the name in local Lorraine-German dialect "Saargemin", meaning "confluence into the Saar", is located at the confluence of the Blies and the Saar, 40 miles east of Metz, 60 miles northwest of Strasbourg by rail, and at the junction of the lines to Trier and Saarburg. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. The Blies is a right tributary of the Saar River in south-western Germany ( Saarland) and north-eastern France ( Moselle) The Saar ( French: Sarre) is a River in northeastern France and western Germany, and a right tributary of the Moselle River Metz (mɛs in French) is a city in the northeast of France, capital of the Lorraine région and Préfecture Strasbourg (Strasbourg stʁazbuʁ Alsatian: Strossburi,; Straßburg) is the capital and principal City of the Alsace région Trier (Trèves Luxembourgish: Tréier; Augusta Treverorum is a City in Germany on the banks of the Moselle River. Saarburg (pop ~6700 is a city of the Trier-Saarburg district in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany, on the banks of the Saar River Traditionally Sarreguemines was the head of river navigation on the Saar, its importance being a depot where boats were unloaded.

Administration

Sarreguemines is the chief town of two cantons:

History

Saargemünd, originally a Roman settlement, obtained civic rights early in the 13th century. The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. In 1297 it was ceded by the count of Saarbrücken to the Duke of Lorraine, and passed with Lorraine in 1766 to France. The rulers of Lorraine have held different posts under different governments over different regions Lorraine (Lorraine Lothringen is a historical area in present-day northeast France. Year 1766 ( MDCCLXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a

It was transferred to Germany in 1871, with the Treaty of Frankfurt following the Franco-Prussian War. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Year 1871 ( MDCCCLXXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Treaty of Frankfurt (Le traité de Francfort Friede von Frankfurt was a Peace treaty signed in Frankfurt on May 10, 1871, at the end of The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War ( 19 July, 1870 — 10 May, 1871 From 1871 to 1918 it formed part of Germany, in the imperial province of Alsace-Lorraine and manufactured plush velvet, leather, porcelain and earthenware, and was a chief depot for papier-mâché boxes, mostly used for snuffboxes. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Alsace-Lorraine (Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen generally Elsass - Lothringen) was a territorial entity created by the German Empire in 1871 It was returned to France after World War I. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All

Notable citizens

Sarreguemines was the birthplace of

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References

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