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Granville
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commune in Manche, France
Granville is a town located in the Manche department in northwestern France. It is a commune, which is the smallest administrative division in the French local government system.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Granville is referenced by 850 other articles, and connects out to tincture, World War II and Le Mont Saint-Michel.
It sits within the topics Commons link from Wikidata, Communes of Manche and Populated places established in the 12th century.
Its subject is documented across 54 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Granville
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Population
- 14,289
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Champ-Libre
- Population
- 12581
- Area
- 9.9
- Elevation
- 67
- Official website
- www.ville-granville.fr
- Image
- Toits de Granville en direction du sud en été (2019).JPG
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- Commons category
- Granville (Manche)
- postal code
- 50400
- Commons gallery
- Granville
- male population
- 5594
- female population
- 6986
- P8168
- Fruška Gora
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-2-33-91-30-00
- fax number
- +33-2-33-91-30-09
- P12749
- Clematis viticella
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Encyclopedic overview
Granville ( French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃.vil] ; Norman: Graunville) is a commune in the Manche department of Normandy, France. The chef-lieu of the canton of Granville and seat of the Communes of Granville, Terre et Mer, it is a seaside resort and health resort of Mont Saint-Michel Bay, at the end of the Côte des Havres, a former cod-fishing port and the first shellfish port of France. It is sometimes nicknamed "Monaco of the North" by virtue of its location on a rocky promontory.
The town was founded by a vassal of William the Conqueror on land occupied by the Vikings in the 11th century. The old privateer city and fortification for the defence of Mont Saint-Michel became a seaside resort in the 19th century which was frequented by many artists and equipped with a golf course and a horse racing course.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Granville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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