Year 588 (DLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 588 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Year 521 (DXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sabbatius and Valerius. The denomination 521 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Verdun is a city in the Meuse department in Grand Est, northeastern France. It is an arrondissement of the department.
Seraing is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium.
The Meuse-Line is the chain of French forts and other military installations closing the passages of the Meuse between Verdun and Toul. These lines formed part of the defensive scheme adopted by France in 1873–1875.
The arrondissement of Verdun is an arrondissement of France in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region. It has 254 communes. Its population is 82,317 (2021), and its area is 2,828.6 km2 (1,092.1 sq mi). Six communes in the arrondissement have been uninhabited since the First World War.
The following is a list of the 17 cantons of the Meuse department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:
Wigeric or Wideric was a Frankish nobleman and the count of the Bidgau and held the rights of a count within the city of Trier. He received also the advocacy of the Abbey of Saint Rumbold at Mechelen from King Charles the Simple of West Francia. From 915 or 916, he was the count palatine of Lotharingia. He was the founder of the House of Ardennes.
Vedast or Vedastus, also known as Saint Vaast or Saint Waast, Saint Gaston in French, and Foster in English was an early bishop in the Frankish realm. After the victory of Tolbiac Vedast helped instruct the Frankish king Clovis in the Christian faith of his wife, Queen Clotilde.
The Prince-Bishopric of Verdun was a state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was located at the western edge of the Empire and was bordered by France, the Duchy of Luxembourg, and the Duchy of Bar. Some time in the late 990s, the suzerainty of the County of Verdun passed from Herman of Ename of the House of Ardenne–Verdun to the Bishopric of Verdun.
The Diocese of Nancy and Toul is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. After a considerable political struggle between Louis XV, Louis XVI, and the Dukes of Lorraine, the diocese was erected by Pope Pius VI on 17 December 1777. The Diocese of Nancy is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Besançon.
Bogny-sur-Meuse is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Grand Est region of northern France. Bogny-sur-Meuse is known for multiple sites linked to the medieval legend of The Four Sons of Aymon, such as the Hermitage, the statue of Bayard the horse, and the four peaks symbolizing the four brothers. Situated in the Ardennes mountains, the commune extends along the banks of the Meuse.
The Diocese of Verdun is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Besançon. The Diocese of Verdun corresponds to the département of Meuse in the région of Lorraine. The diocese is subdivided into 577 parishes.
Dun-sur-Meuse is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Sivry-sur-Meuse is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Sivry-sur-Meuse was invaded in World War 1. Most of the houses were damaged in the Battle of Verdun.
Saint Vitonus, also called Vanne or Vaune, became a monk as a young man and was later made Bishop of Verdun by King Clovis I.
Nicolas Beauzée was a French linguist, author of Grammaire générale and one of the main contributors to the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert on the topic of grammar. In 1772 he was named as the successor to Charles Pinot Duclos in the Académie française.
Agericus of Verdun was the tenth Bishop of Verdun and an advisor to King Childebert II of Austrasia.
Paulus of Verdun (576-648) was a bishop of Verdun in the Lorraine region of France from 630 until his death in 647 or 648.
Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Verdun is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Verdun. It is located in the Meuse department, in the Grand Est region, northeastern France. Created in 2015, its seat is in Verdun. Its area is 300.9 km2. Its population was 27,493 in 2019, of which 16,942 in Verdun proper.
