Damvillers is a commune in the Meuse department, in the historic region of Lorraine and the Grand Est region of northeastern France. It lies 24.5 km from Verdun and 80 km from Luxembourg City and had 613 inhabitants in 2023. Medieval forms of the name include Damvillerium in 1086 and Danviler in 1204. In 1317 it was a small village of the Duchy of Luxembourg protected by a castle where Beatrice, queen of Bohemia, lived. Charles V made it a fortress, and it passed to France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, then belonged to French Luxembourg until 1790. It is one of the places where the action of the 1978 television film All Quiet on the Western Front is set.
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1. Damvillers (French Wikipedia)
Introduction or infobox
Population municipale 613 hab.
On Continent: Europe, Introduction
est une commune française située dans le département de la Meuse
Part Of: France, Introduction
est une commune française située dans le département de la Meuse
In Group: Cities of Western Europe (World), Lead
Damvillers (French pronunciation: [dɑ̃vile]) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
View the Source2. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Damvillers coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevationQuote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 211.0 ]
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 49.25, 5.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 49.25, 5.25
49.25 5.25 Cfb
4. GeoNames: Damvillers - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3021794, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 3021794, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
49.34366 5.40111 P PPL FR 44 55 553 55145 701 207 Europe/Paris
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