Moselle

French department

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The Moselle is a department (administrative region) in northeastern France, located near the borders with Germany and Luxembourg. It is historically significant as an area that has changed hands between France and Germany multiple times and remains an important industrial and cultural region in the Grand Est area of France.

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Official name: Moselle
Population: 1051309
Area: 6216
Official website: www.moselle.pref.gouv.fr
Image: Temple de Metz mai 2009.jpg

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Commons category: Moselle (department)
inception: 1790-03-04
Commons gallery: Moselle
annual number of weddings: 2469
native label: Departement Moselle

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Moselle ( French pronunciation: [mɔzɛl] ) is the most populous department in Lorraine, in the northeast of France, and is named after the river Moselle, a tributary of the Rhine, which flows through the western part of the department. It had a population of 1,051,309 in 2023. Inhabitants of the department are known as Mosellans.

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