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Fontoy, Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, Francei
Regional Level Types
FontoyCommune
ThionvilleArrondissement
MoselleDepartment
Grand EstRegion
FranceCountry

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View of the Fontoy iron mining area, in 1905.

Fontoy, Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, France
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View of the Fontoy iron mining area, in 1905.

Fontoy, Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, France
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View of the Fontoy iron mining area, in 1905.

Fontoy, Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, France
05612950017272391138190.jpg
View of the Fontoy iron mining area, in 1905.

Fontoy, Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, France
04604940017272391159899.jpg
View of the Fontoy iron mining area, in 1905.

Fontoy, Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, France
01554020017272391167624.jpg
View of the Fontoy iron mining area, in 1905.

Fontoy, Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, France
05612950017272391138190.jpg
View of the Fontoy iron mining area, in 1905.

Fontoy, Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, France
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View of the Fontoy iron mining area, in 1905.

Fontoy, Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, France
Type:
Largest Settlements:
PlacePopulation
Fontoy3,250 (2018)
Mindat Locality ID:
369933
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:369933:4
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other Languages:
English:
Fontoy
French:
Fontoy, Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, France
German:
Fentsch, Diedenhofen, Mosel, Großer Osten, Frankreich
Italian:
Fontoy, arrondissement di Thionville, Mosella, Grand Est, Francia
Russian:
Фонтуа, Тьонвиль, Мозель, Гранд-Эст, Франция
Simplified Chinese:
丰图瓦, 蒂永维尔区, 摩泽尔省, 大東部大區, 法国
Spanish:
Fontoy, Distrito de Thionville, Mosela, Gran Este, Francia
Afrikaans:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Frankryk
Aragonese:
Fontoy, Mosela, Gran Este, Francia
Asturian:
Fontoy, Mosela, Gran Este, Francia
Bambara:
Fontoy, Faransi
Basque:
Fontoy, Thionvilleko barrutia, Moselle, Grand Est, Frantzia
Bavarian:
Fontoy, Frankreich
Breton:
Fontoy, arondisamant Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, Bro-C'hall
Catalan:
Fontoy, Mosel·la, Gran Est, França
Cebuano:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Pransiya
Chechen:
Фонтуа, Франци
Corsican:
Fontoy, Francia
Croatian:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Francuska
Czech:
Fontoy, Arrondissement Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, Francie
Danish:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Frankrig
Dutch:
Fontoy, Arrondissement Thionville, Moselle, Grand Est, Frankrijk
Dutch Low Saxon:
Fontoy, Frankriek
Esperanto:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Francio
Estonian:
Fontoy, Moselle'i departemang, Prantsusmaa
Faroese:
Fontoy, Frakland
Farsi/Persian:
فونتوای, بخش تیونویل, موزل, گرانت است, فرانسه
Finnish:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Ranska
Franco-Provençal:
Fontoy, Mosèla, France
Friulian:
Fontoy, France
Galician:
Fontoy, Mosela, Gran Leste, Francia
Greek:
Φοντουά, Διαμέρισμα του Τιονβίλ, Μοζέλ, Γκραντ Εστ, Γαλλία
Greenlandic:
Fontoy, Franskit Nunaat
Hungarian:
Fontoy, Moselle, Franciaország
Icelandic:
Fontoy, Frakkland
Ido:
Fontoy, Francia
Indonesian:
Fontoy, Moselle, Timur Raya, Perancis
Interlingua:
Fontoy, arrondissement de Thionville, Departimento Moselle, Grand Est, Francia
Interlingue:
Fontoy, Francia
Irish Gaelic:
Fontoy, Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine, An Fhrainc
Jamaican Patois:
Fontoy, Frans
Kabyle:
Fontoy, Fransa
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Фонтуа, Мозель, Франция
Kongo:
Fontoy, Moselle, Fwalansa
Latin:
Fontoy, Mosella, Magnus Oriens, Francia
Latvian:
Fontoy, Mozele, Francija
Ligurian:
Fontoy, Fransa
Limburgian:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Frankriek
Lithuanian:
Fontoy, Tionvilis, Mozelis, Prancūzija
Low Saxon/Low German:
Fontoy, Moselle, Frankriek
Luxembourgish:
Fensch, Arrondissement Thionville, Departement Moselle, Grand Est, Frankräich
Malagasy:
Fontoy, Moselle, Frantsa
Malay:
Fontoy, Moselle, Perancis
Minangkabau:
Fontoy, Parancih
Minnan / Hokkien-Taiwanese:
Fontoy, Thionville Kūn, Moselle, Hoat-kok
Narom:
Fontoy, France
Neapolitan:
Fontoy, Franza
Norwegian (Nynorsk):
Fontoy, Moselle, Frankrike
Occitan:
Fontoy, Mosèla, Grand Èst, França
Papiamento:
Fontoy, Fransia
Pfaelzisch:
Fontoy, Frankreich
Picard:
Fontoy, Franche
Piedmontese:
Fontoy, Mosela, Fransa
Polish:
Fontoy, Mozela, Grand Est, Francja
Portuguese:
Fontoy, Mosela, Grande Leste, França
Romanian:
Fontoy, Arondismentul Thionville, Moselle, Franța
Romansh:
Fontoy, Frantscha
Sardinian:
Fontoy, Frantza
Scots:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Fraunce
Scottish Gaelic:
Fontoy, Moselle, An Fhraing
Serbian:
Фонтоа, Мозел, Гран ест, Француска
Serbo-Croatian:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Francuska
Sicilian:
Fontoy, Francia
Slovak:
Fontoy, Moselle, Alsasko-Champagne-Ardenne-Lotrinsko, Francúzsko
Swahili:
Fontoy, Moselle, Ufaransa
Swedish:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Frankrike
Turkish:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Fransa
Ukrainian:
Фонтуа, Мозель, Гранд-Ест, Франція
Uzbek (Latin Script):
Fontoy, Fransiya
Venetian:
Fontoy, Fransa
Vietnamese:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Pháp
Volapük:
Fontoy, Moselle, Fransän
Walloon:
Fontoy, France
Waray:
Fontoy, Moselle, Grand Est, Fransya
Welsh:
Fontoy, Moselle, Dwyrain Mawr, Ffrainc
West Flemish:
Fontoy, Grand Est, Vrankryk
Wolof:
Fontoy, Faraas
Zulu:
Fontoy, IFulansi


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Fossils

There are 1 fossil locality from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.

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Occurrences1
Youngest Fossil Listed164 Ma (Middle Jurassic)
Oldest Fossil Listed174 Ma (Middle Jurassic)
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Accepted NameHierarchy Age
Cypridina
genus
Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Myodocopida : Cypridinidae : Cypridina174.1 - 163.5 Ma
Middle Jurassic
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Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontoy
Wikidata ID:Q21675


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