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Metz

Metz is a city of 124 thousand1 located where the Seille River flows into the Moselle, in Moselle Department (Lorraine Region), France. The tallest building is the 289 foot Saint-Étienne Cathedral (Gothic), though the modern extension of the Centre Pompidou is nearly as tall.2

YearPopulationPolitical entity
800 CE25,0003Francia (Frankish Empire)
1200 CE23,0003Imperivm Romanvm Sacrvm (the Holy Roman Empire)
1300 CE32,0003city state of Metz
1400 CE25,0003city state of Metz
1500 CE30,0003Fürstbistum Metz (Archbishopric of Metz)
1700 CE28,0003Royaume de France
1800 CE37,0004République de France
1900 CE58,0004Deutsches Reich (German Empire)
1999 CE124,0001République de France

External references

Saint-Étienne Cathedral, Metz, Moselle Department, Lorraine Region, France

Historical maps

map showing part of the Francia (Frankish Empire), 800 CE

map showing parts of Lothari Regnvm (Lotharingia) and Dvcato Francorvm (Île-de-France), 900 CE

map showing parts of Regnvm Francorvm (the Holy Roman Empire), Arelat and Comes-dom (Compté) of Vermandois, 1000 CE

map showing parts of Regnvm Francorvm (France) and Regnvm Tevtonicvm (the Holy Roman Empire), 1100 CE

map showing parts of Regnvm Francorvm (France) and Imperivm Romanvm Sacrvm (the Holy Roman Empire), 1200 CE

map showing the city state of Metz and part of the Royaume de France, 1300 CE

map showing the city state of Metz and part of the Royaume de France, 1400 CE

map showing Fürstbistum Metz (Archbishopric of Metz) and part of the Royaume de France, 1500 CE

map showing part of the Royaume de France, 1600 CE

map showing part of the Royaume de France, 1700 CE

map showing part of the République de France, 1800 CE

map showing parts of the République de France and the Deutsches Reich (German Empire), 1900 CE

map showing part of the République de France, and part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2000 CE

Footnotes

1. http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_France, accessed 2/5/2015.
2. Emporis.com, accessed 4/6/2015.
3. 'Cities of Europe, [Franks or Germany or France], [800 or 1200 or 1300 or 1400 or 1500 or 1700] A.D.,' in Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth, 2nd ed. (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987). In 800 CE it was tied for largest city in what is now France.
4. Ibid. Tables of the World's Largest Cities.