Marne (river)
Location of Marne in northern France
The Marne at Noisy- le- Grand
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The Marne [ maʀn ] is a river in France. It rises on the plateau of Langres, in the municipality of Balesmes -sur- Marne, at an altitude of about 420 meters. You drained initially to the northwest, turns later on West and Southwest and flows after 514 kilometers in Charenton- le -Pont, just southeast of Paris, as a right tributary of the Seine.
After the Marne several French departments are named, namely, Haute -Marne, Marne, Seine- et- Marne and Val -de- Marne.
Traversed by department (No. ) and cities
- Haute- Marne ( 52): Chaumont, Saint- Dizier
- Marne (51): Chalons-en -Champagne, Epernay
- Aisne (02 ): Château -Thierry
- Meuse (55 ): Ancerville
- Seine- et- Marne ( 77): Meaux, Lagny -sur- Marne, Torcy, Noisiel
- Seine- Saint -Denis ( 93): Neuilly -sur- Marne, Noisy- le- Grand
- Val -de- Marne (94): Nogent -sur- Marne, Créteil, Charenton- le -Pont, Champigny -sur- Marne, Saint- Maur- des-Fosses, Joinville- le -Pont, Saint- Maurice
Tributaries
Left tributaries:
- Mouche
- Suize
- Blaise
- Isson
- Guenelle
- Cool
- Somme Soude
- Tarnauds
- Surmelin
- Petit Morin
- Grand Morin
Rights tributaries:
- Traire
- Rognon
- Rongeant
- Saulx
- Moivre
- Livre
- Semoigne
- Ourcq
- Therouanne
- Beuvronne
History
In antiquity, the river was named after the eponymous Matrona Celtic river goddess. Julius Caesar according to the Matrona was with the lower reaches of the Sequana ( Seine), the boundary between the people of the Belgae and the actual Gauls.
Here were the First World War, the German troops are stopped ( " Marne miracle" ). Until 1918, there were numerous battles in this area.
Shipping
The Marne is navigable in the lower reaches with ships themselves. Further upstream navigability is made possible by canals that use the waters of the Marne. They are:
- The Lateral Canal à la Marne and
- Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne.
As a once- important shipping lane it is connected by more channels with the Rhine, Meuse, Moselle, Aisne and Saône.