Département: Moselle
Metz, chief town of the département of Moselle and the region of Lorraine, the see of a bishop and a university town since 1971, lies at the junction of the Seille and the Moselle, which at this point is divided into a number of arms. It is an industrial and
commercial city.
Metz, under the name of Dividorum, was a place of some consequence in Roman times. In the sixth century it was a residence of the Merovingian kings, and later became a free imperial city. It was incorporated in France in 1552. From 1870 to 1918 and during the Second World War it belonged to the German Reich and was capital of the province of Lorraine.
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