La Seyne-sur-Mer
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Commune of La Seyne-sur-Mer |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
| Department | Var |
| Arrondissement | Toulon |
| Canton | Chief town of 2 cantons: La Seyne-sur-Mer Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer |
| Intercommunality | Communauté d'agglomération Toulon Provence Méditerranée |
| Mayor | Arthur Paecht (2001-2008) |
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| Elevation | 0 m–352 m (avg. 9 m) |
| Land area¹ | 22.17 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
60,188 |
| - Density | 2,715/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 83126/ 83500 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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La Seyne-sur-Mer, or La Seyne is a town and commune of the Var département, in France. It is an industrial suburb of Toulon, SW of that port, and connected with it by rail and steamer. At the 1999 census it had a population of 60,188 and a land area of 22.17 km² (8.56 sq mi).
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[edit] History
Pop. (1901) 21,002.
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[edit] Economy
It owed its importance to the shipbuilding trade, the Société des Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranée having here one of the finest shipbuilding yards in Europe (it is a branch of the greater establishment at Marseille), which gave employment to about 3,000 workers.
Iraq's "Osiris class" nuclear reactors, later destroyed by Israel in Operation Opera, were built in La Seyne-sur-Mer.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ George Russell (June 22, 1981). "Attack--and Fallout". Time.
[edit] External links
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- Tourist office website
- Personal website about the history of La Seyne-sur-Mer (French)
- Website about the history and directory of La Seyne-sur-Mer (French)
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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