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Former populated places in France

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Beaumont-en-Verdunois
Beaumont-en-Verdunois () is a commune in the Meuse department of the Grand Est region of northeastern France.
Bezonvaux
Bezonvaux () is a commune in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region in northeastern France.
Haumont-près-Samogneux
Haumont-près-Samogneux (, literally Haumont near Samogneux) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Luc-en-Diois
Luc-en-Diois (; ; Latin: Lucus Augusti or Lucus) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. It is situated on the river Drôme.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont
Fleury-devant-Douaumont (, literally Fleury before Douaumont) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Cumières-le-Mort-Homme
Cumières-le-Mort-Homme () is a ghost commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. In English, the name of the commune translates to "Cumières of the dead people".
Ornes
commune in Meuse, France
Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre
Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre () is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Corent
Corent () is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France.
Montaillou
Montaillou (; ) is a commune in the Ariège department in the south of France. Its original, medieval location was abandoned and the current village is a short distance away.
Alesia
antique Gallo-Roman town
Bibracte
thumb|right|280x280px|Plan of the oppidum of Bibracte Bibracte, a Gallic oppidum (fortified settlement), was the capital of the Aedui and one of the most important hillforts in Gaul. It was located near modern Autun in Burgundy, France. The material culture of the Aedui corresponded to the Late Iron Age La Tène culture.
Cézembre
Cézembre is an island in Brittany, in the Ille-et-Vilaine département of France, near Saint-Malo. The island is uninhabited, with a surface area of approximately 18 hectares (44 acres), a length of , and a maximum width of .
Glanum
Glanum (Hellenistic Γλανόν, as well as Glano, Calum, Clano, Clanum, Glanu, Glano) was an ancient and wealthy city which still enjoys a magnificent setting below a gorge on the flanks of the Alpilles mountains. It is located about one kilometre south of the town of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Filitosa
thumb|Filitosa thumb|Filitosa left|thumb|Filitosa V Filitosa is a megalithic site in southern Corsica, France. The period of occupation spans from the end of the Neolithic era and the beginning of the Bronze Age, until around the Roman times in Corsica.
Terra Amata
prehistoric archaeological site in Nice, France
Oppidum d'Ensérune
human settlement in France
Cenabum
Cenabum, Gaul (sometimes written Cenabaum or Genabum) was the name of the capital city of the Carnutes, located near the present French city of Orléans. Cenabum was an oppidum and a thriving commercial town on the Loire river.
Mariana
Ancient Roman city
Argentomagus
thumb|right|The fountain at Argentomagus in 2009 The Roman city of Argentomagus was located in the Mersans plateau of central France, at the strategic point on the north bank of the river Creuse, where a Roman bridge once traversed. It was located at the crossing of two roads—Cenabum (Orléans) to Augustoritum (Limoges), and Limonum (Poitiers) to Avaricum (Bourges). The Latin name of the city meant "Silver Market." The modern town of Argenton takes its name from the ancient site of Argentomagus.
La Graufesenque
archaeological site
Pech Maho
iron age oppidum in southern France
Ambrussum
Ambrussum (, ; ) is a Roman archaeological site in Villetelle, Occitania, Southern France.
Roman Catholic Diocese of Glandèves
Roman Catholic diocese in France
Gorgobina
Gorgobina was a Celtic oppidum (fortified city) on the territory of the Aedui tribe. After the defeat of the Helvetii in 58 BC at nearby Bibracte, the Helvetians' Boii allies settled there (Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, I., 28). Whether this was an act of clemency on Julius Caesar's part may be disputed.
Port Jeanne d'Arc
whaling station in TAAF, France
Beauséjour
human settlement in France