Le tunnel de Toulon est un ouvrage souterrain routier urbain qui relie l’autoroute A50 Marseille/Toulon à l’ouest, aux autoroutes A57 Toulon/Le Luc (Nice) et A570 Toulon/Hyères à l’est, ainsi que les quartiers ouest et est de la ville. Des accidents géotechniques ont affecté le chantier du tunnel lui-même - écroulement et fontis - et des immeubles susjacents – tassements et fissuration ; ils ont largement augmenté les délais et les coûts de sa construction : les travaux du tube nord est/ouest ont débuté en 1993 ; il fonctionne depuis 2002.
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The siege of Toulon took place between 29 July and 21 August 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession, when a combined Savoyard-Imperial army supported by a British naval force, attacked the French base at Toulon.
The Allies had insufficient men to institute a formal siege, while they were outnumbered by French land forces; after losing around 13,000 men, mostly from disease, they retreated to Piedmont. The French fleet inside the harbour, including 46 ships of the line, was sunk to prevent its destruction; the fleet would not be re-floated until after the war ended, cementing British control of the western Mediterranean.
However, the Allied defeat ended hopes of attacking France through its vulnerable southern border, forcing the Allies into a war of attrition on its much more strongly held northern frontier. The battle's outcome also effectively brought an end to major operations in Italy.
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Toulon, Touloun, pronounced [tuˈlun]) is a city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Located on the French Riviera and the historical Provence, it is the prefecture of the Var department.
The Commune of Toulon has a population of 179,116 people, making it France's 12th-largest city, and third most populous French city on the Mediterranean, after Marseille and Nice. It is the centre of an urban unit with 580,281 inhabitants, the ninth largest in France by population.
Toulon is an important centre for naval construction, fishing, wine making, and the manufacture of aeronautical equipment, armaments, maps, paper, tobacco, printing, shoes, and electronic equipment.
The military port of Toulon is the major naval centre on France's Mediterranean coast, home of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and her battle group. The French Mediterranean Fleet is based in Toulon. The 1793 siege took place during the Federalist revolts.
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Toulon station is a French railway station serving the city Toulon, Var department, southeastern France. It is situated on the Marseille–Ventimiglia railway.
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The canton of Toulon-1 is an administrative division of the Var department, southeastern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Toulon.
It consists of the following communes:
Toulon
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The Battle of Toulon was an urban battle of World War II in southern France that took place 20–26 August 1944 and led to the liberation of Toulon by Free French forces under the command of General Edgard de Larminat.
Les travaux du tube sud ouest/est ont débuté en septembre 2007 ; il a ouvert le 19 mars 2014 à 5 h 15.