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unusual facts about Arrondissement


Njomgang Isaac

In 1954, the Arrondissement of Dschang in West Cameroon was administered by a mixed group of White Colonial European (Messieurs MOUTERDE Emmanuel et GAUGER Robert jusqu'en 1959).


20th arrondissement of Paris

The Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) has its head office in the arrondissement.

Arrondissement of Neufchâteau

Arrondissement of Neufchâteau, Vosges, an arrondissement in the Vosges department in France

Auguste-Célestin Gongarad Nkoua

At the time of the January 2002 constitutional referendum, Gongarad Nkoua, who was still serving as Minister of Agriculture, headed the National Electoral Commission's operations for Ouenzé, the fifth arrondissement of Brazzaville.

Boucan

Grand-Boucan (Creole: Gran Boukan) is a municipality in the Baradères Arrondissement in the Nippes Department of Haiti

Cerny

Cerny, Essonne, a commune in the Arrondissement of Étampes in France

Colobane Arrondissement

The arrondissement is divided administratively into rural communities and in turn into villages.

Coteaux

Côteaux, a municipality in the Côteaux Arrondissement, in the Sud Department of Haiti.

Dakar Department

The département of Dakar is divided into four arrondissements: Almadies, Grand Dakar, Parcelles Assainies (which literally means "drained lots"; this is the most populous arrondissement of Dakar), and Plateau/Gorée (downtown Dakar).

Dakar-Plateau

The commune d'arrondissement of Plateau/Gorée (34,626 inhabitants), in the arrondissement of Dakar-Plateau, is the historical heart of the city, and most ministries and public administrations are located there.

Dassari

Dassari, Benin, a town and arrondissement in the Atakora Department of Benin

Ferrières Abbey

Ferrières Abbey was a Benedictine monastery situated at Ferrières-en-Gâtinais in the arrondissement of Montargis, in the département of Loiret, France.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Eventually, she maintained art studios in Greenwich Village and in Passy, a fashionable Parisian neighborhood in the XVI arrondissement.

Gustave Dutailly

During the same year, he became a deputy (political title) of the arrondissement of Chaumont, and in 1885 was named deputy of the department of Haute-Marne.

Hippolyte Louis Gory

Hippolyte Louis Gory was born in Paris, 5th arrondissement the 27 (or the 28) September 1800 (the exact date is 5 vendémiaire an IX in the republican calendar).

Léogâne Arrondissement

On 12 January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the arrondissement.

Notre-Dame du Reclus Abbey

Notre-Dame du Reclus Abbey or Sancta Maria de Recluso Abbey was a male Cistercian monastery near Sézanne in the Épernay arrondissement of the diocese of Troyes.

Oberkampf

a street in Paris, Rue Oberkampf, 11th arrondissement of Paris, and its surrounding area

Place Vendome

Place Vendôme, a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France

Roches Noires

Roches Noires, Morocco, an arrondissement of eastern Casablanca, in the Aïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi district of the Grand Casablanca region of Morocco.

Steffeln

After the occupation of the lands on the Rhine’s left bank by French Revolutionary troops in 1794 and the French annexation of the Austrian Netherlands between 1795 and 1797, Steffeln became the seat of a mairie (“mayoralty”) in the Canton of Kronenburg, the Arrondissement of Malmedy and the Department of Ourthe, whose seat was in Liège.


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