Trun, Orne

Trun
Commune
The town hall in Trun
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 48°50′38″N 0°02′02″E / 48.8438°N 0.0338°E / 48.8438; 0.0338Coordinates: 48°50′38″N 0°02′02″E / 48.8438°N 0.0338°E / 48.8438; 0.0338
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Argentan
Canton	Argentan-2
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jacques Prigent
Area 1	9.12 km2 (3.52 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	1,240
• Density	140/km2 (350/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	61494006 /61160200
Elevation	77–151 m (253–495 ft) (avg. 81 m or 266 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Trun (French pronunciation: [tʁœ̃] (listen)) is a commune in the Orne département and the region of Normandy in north-western France.

Geography[]

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Administration[]

Population[]

Economy[]

• Heller SA, manufacturer of plastic scale model kits.
• Electrical

Ruins and monuments[]

Aerial photography has revealed the trace of a Gallo-Roman habitat. In the 19th century a Merovingian dynasty necropolis was discovered.

Personalities associated with Trun[]

• 1622–1703, religious follower of Saint Vincent de Paul.

Further reading[]

• Bonnet de la Tour, R. (1968). L'Hospice et le Bourg de Trun (in French).
• Camus, Pierre; Gondouin, Ghislain (1996). Sutton, Alan (ed.). Mémoire en images, le canton de Trun (in French).

Notes and references[]

• INSEE commune file

See also[]

• Communes of the Orne department

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Trun (Orne).

• Official site of the Commune of Trun (in French)
• Trun from times past (in French, but mostly images)

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