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Manche
Manche is a French department in Normandy named after La Manche ("the sleeve"), which is the French name for the English Channel.
Manche is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the province of Normandie.
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Cherbourg-Octeville
Cherbourg-Octeville is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
It was formed when the city of Cherbourg was including the commune of Octeville on 28 February 2000, and was officially renamed Cherbourg-Octeville. In...
Mortain
Mortain is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Mortain is situated on a rocky hill rising above the gorge of the Cance, a tributary of the Sélune.
Mortain is the seat of a canton. It is a former subprefecture of...
Acqueville
Acqueville is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France.
Avranches
Avranches is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. The inhabitants are called Avranchinais .
By the end of the Roman period, the settlement of Ingena,...
Sainte-Mère-Église
Sainte-Mère-Église is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Founded in the twelfth Century, the earliest records show its first name was "Sanctae Mariae Ecclesia", Latin for "Church of St. Mary". The current French...
Saint-Lô
Saint-Lô is a commune in north-western France, the capital of the Manche department in Normandy.
Originally called Briovère (meaning "Bridge on the Vire River" in Gaulish), the town is built on and around ramparts. Originally it was a Gaul fortified...
Coutances
Coutances is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Capital of the Unelli, a Gaulish tribe, the town took the name of Constantia in 298 during the reign of Roman emperor Constantius Chlorus. The surrounding region,...
Agon-Coutainville
Agon-Coutainville is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France.
This is the village of Madame Leprieur.
Airel
Airel is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France.
Carentan
Carentan is a small rural town near the north-eastern base of the French Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy in north-western France near the port city of Cherbourg-Octeville. Carentan has a population somewhat over 6,000 and is now administratively...
Valognes
Valognes is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
It lies on the Merderet river, 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Cherbourg.
The town was built not far from the Roman town of Alauna or Alaunia, from where the town derives...
Villedieu-les-Poêles
Villedieu-les-Poêles is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Its inhabitants are called Sourdins from the French sourd meaning deaf. Most of the people involved in the manufacturing of copper pans, which involved...
Barfleur
Barfleur is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France.
In the Middle Ages Barfleur was one of the chief ports of embarkation for England.
About 2 miles (3.2 km) to the north is Cape Barfleur, with a...
Granville
Granville is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France.
The residents are called Granvillais.
Administratively, the island of Chausey is part of the commune of Granville, which includes a small harbour.
Granville is situated on the...
Bricquebec
Bricquebec, a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Inhabitants are referred to as Bricquebétais.
As revealed by the etymology of its name, the origin of Bricquebec (from the Scandinavian bekkr, a course of water; in...
Vesly
Vesly is commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
It is located on the Contentin Peninsula approximately 45 minutes south of Cherbourg and 1 hour from Caen. It is approximately 5 miles from the sea.
Vesly has a...
Pontorson
Pontorson is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France.
Pontorson's most notable feature is that it contains the nearest SNCF railway station to France's second most popular tourist attraction, Mont Saint-Michel. It is thus a...
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
It is best known for being the scene of military engagement between the American 101st Airborne Division and the German Wehrmacht on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Lessay
Lessay is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France.
Lessay is a small town in the centre of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy.
It was originally founded as a monastery but a town grew up around it over the years. The 10th century...
Flamanville
Flamanville is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France.
On its territory is installed the seaside Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant, established there in the eighties, with two PWR reactors of 1300 MWe each, which were put into...
Angoville-sur-Ay
Angoville-sur-Ay is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France.
Équilly
Équilly is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Lolif
Lolif is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Jobourg
Jobourg is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France.
It is surrounded by moorland and is not far away from the Phare de Goury (Goury Lighthouse), a lighthouse 100 meters away from the Goury beach. Jobourg has one nice beach on its...
La Mancellière-sur-Vire
La Mancellière-sur-Vire is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Besneville
Besneville is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France.
Brix
Brix (French pronunciation: [bʁi]) is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Brix is known primarily as being the assumed origin of the Bruce family, who emigrated to Britain with William the Conqueror, settling in...
Auderville
Auderville (French pronunciation: [odɛʁvil]) is a commune on the north coast of the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France.
The commune contains four villages, Goury, Laye, La Valette and La Roche, as well as a...
Saint-James
Saint-James is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Saint-James is on the border between Normandy and Brittany.
The Beuvron River et the Dierge River flow through the commune.
William the Conqueror built the Saint...
Milly
Milly is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France
Beuvrigny
Beuvrigny is a commune in the Manche department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France.
Coigny
Coigny is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
Genêts
Genêts is a commune in the Manche department in northwestern France. It was the port of the oppidum Ingena (now Avranches), the main settlement of the Abrincatui.
The Manoir de Brion, an ancient Benedictine priory of the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel...
Hyenville
Hyenville is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France.
Isigny-le-Buat
Isigny-le-Buat is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France.
