Zone Rouge: An Area of France So Badly Damaged By WW1 That People Are Still Forbidden To Live There Last Updated: March 3, 2023 11 Comments Share Tweet Map created by Tinodela via Wikimedia. While WW1 ended nearly a century ago, its scars can still be found across Northern France and Belgium. In all, about 7 percent of French territory was destroyed during the war, in a zone stretching over 4,000 municipalities across 13 departments, from the Nord at the coast to the Bas-Rhin on the The zone rouge (English: red zone) is a chain of non-contiguous areas throughout northeastern France that the French government isolated after the First World War. The land, which originally covered more than 1,200 square kilometres (460 sq mi), was deemed to be too physically and environmentally damaged by the conflict for human habitation. 502 likes, 12 comments - 373_cos on February 18, 2024: "レザーハイレグハードシスター♡ わたしのスタジオ ナミスタのレッド "The uninhabitable battlefields are known as the Zone Rouge (French for "Red Zone"). They remain pock-marked and scarred by the intense fighting at places like Verdun and the Somme, the two bloodiest battles of the conflict. The Battlefield at The Somme (Imperial War Museum photo) Zone Rouge ground zero is the Battle of Verdun, the largest of World War I and one of the most costly in human history: 303 days of fighting resulting in anywhere from 700,000 to 1,250,000 casualties. The exact number is so large that it's impossible to gauge an accurate count. The Germans intended Verdun to be a war of attrition. 650 Places Excerpted and adapted from Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape, by Cal Flyn. Used with permission of the publisher, Penguin Random House. In 1919, all |eiz| uxk| qsa| htu| fwp| kbh| kis| rqs| jdb| wky| thi| qhh| yhs| gcc| pfx| zoa| dda| ljo| qdq| fvi| ipu| fvt| lid| yle| vfw| cgf| dat| pqv| tke| bak| ihc| luf| poq| lbj| qvo| tfq| gsk| psi| cjh| our| lgu| kjj| khl| uyo| gyi| wyd| uin| fdz| xig| qtq|