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Bayeux

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RégionBasse-Normandie
(Lower Normandy)
DépartementCalvados
Arrondissement6 cantons
126 communes
6, 022 habitants
Canton16 communes
20,744 habitants
HabitantsBayeusains or Bajocasses
Population (1999)15,403 habitants
Postal code14400
INSEE code14047
Agglomeration (2004)Communauté of communes
28,366 habitants
Area711 ha

Bayeux is a small town in Normandy, northern France, just a few kilometres from the coast and between the city of Caen to the east and the base of the Cotentin Peninsula to the west.

Bayeux is well known for its famous tapestry, made to commemorate the Norman conquest of Britain in 1066. During the Second World War Bayeux was one of the first French towns to be liberated.

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