Thiaucourt-Regniéville
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Thiaucourt-Regniéville is a commune
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle is a department in the Lorraine region of France, named after the Meurthe and Moselle rivers.- History :Meurthe-et-Moselle was created in 1871 at the end of the Franco-Prussian War from the parts of the former departments of Moselle and Meurthe which remained French...

 department in north-eastern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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Geography

The Rupt de Mad
Rupt de Mad
The Rupt de Mad is a long river in the Meuse and Meurthe-et-Moselle départements, northeastern France. Its source is several small streams which rise at Geville, northwest of Toul. It flows generally northeast...

 flows northeasward through the north-western part of the commune and crosses the village.

Sights

  • The St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial
    St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial
    The St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial in France, in extent, contains the graves of 4,153 of American military dead from World War I. The majority of these died in the offensive that resulted in the reduction of the St. Mihiel salient that threatened Paris. The burial area is divided by...

  • The German war cemetery, where rest more than 11,000 German soldiers from World War I
    World War I
    World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

     and some French soldiers.

See also

  • Communes of the Meurthe-et-Moselle department
  • Parc naturel régional de Lorraine
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