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Péronne is a commune in France, situated within the Somme department and the Hauts-de-France region. It serves as the capital of both the arrondissement of Péronne and the canton of Péronne. The town has a population of 8,041, comprising 3,455 males and 4,124 females, and covers an area of 14.16 square kilometers. Its postal code is 80200, and it is located at an elevation of 117 meters above sea level.
The commune shares borders with Allaines, Barleux, Biaches, and Brie. It is twinned with Altena, Salobreña, and Blackburn. Péronne received the Croix de guerre 1914–1918. The official name of the locality is Péronne, and it is described in sources such as the Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
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Place details
- Locality
- Péronne
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Population
- 9,011
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Péronne
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Péronne
- Population
- 7090
- Area
- 14.16
- Elevation
- 66
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- River Somme
- Shares border with
- Mesnil-Bruntel
- Official website
- www.ville-peronne.fr
- Image
- Péronne - La somme au débouché de la Cologne.JPG
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- twinned administrative body
- Blackburn
- Commons category
- Péronne (Somme)
- topic's main category
- Category:Péronne (Somme)
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Péronne
- postal code
- 80200
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- Péronne
- associated electoral district
- canton of Péronne
- male population
- 3455
- female population
- 4124
- P8168
- Old Jewish Cemetery
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-3-22-73-31-00
- fax number
- +33-3-22-73-31-01
- Commons gallery
- Péronne (Somme)
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Encyclopedic overview
Péronne ( French pronunciation: [peʁɔn]) is a commune of the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is the former site of the Péronne monastery, founded by the Anglo-Saxon St Erkenwald. Its site became the resting place for St. Fursa, celebrated by the famous English historian Bede. The monastery was popular with Irish monks, among them Cellanus, whose letters to Aldhelm the Bishop of Sherborne survive. So renowned was Péronne for Irish monks that the monastery became known as Perrona Scottorum. The monastery was destroyed in a Viking raid in 880. It is close to where the 1916, first 1918 and second 1918 Battles of the Somme took place during the First World War. The Museum of the Great War (known in French as the Historial de la Grande Guerre) is located in the château.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Péronne” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.