Editing Tintigny

{{Short description|Municipality in Luxembourg Province, Belgium}}
{{Infobox Belgium municipality
|name             = Tintigny
|native_name      = {{native_name|wa|Tintnî}}
|picture          = Tintigny, église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption 85039-CLT-0004-01 foto3 2014-06-10 143.259.jpg
|picture-legend   = 
|map              = Tintigny Luxembourg Belgium Map.svg
|map-legend       = Location of Tintigny in Luxembourg province
|arms             = Blason Tintigny (Belgique).svg
|flag             = Tintigny Belgium.svg
|region           = {{BE-REG-WAL}}
|community        = {{BE-FR}}
|province         = {{BE-PROV-LX}}
|arrondissement   = [[Arrondissement of Virton|Virton]]
|nis              = 85039
|pyramid-date=
|0-19=
|20-64=
|65=
|foreigners=
|foreigners-date=
|mayor            = [[Benoît Piedbœuf]]
|majority         = Commune en Vie ([[Reformist Movement|MR]])
|postal-codes     = 6730
|telephone-area   = 063
|web              = {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.tintigny.be/ www.tintigny.be]
|coordinates      = {{coord|49|40|56|N|05|31|01|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
}}

'''Tintigny''' ({{IPA|fr|tɛ̃tiɲi}}; {{langx|wa|Tintnî}}) is a [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] of [[Wallonia]] located in the [[Luxembourg (Belgium)|province of Luxembourg]], [[Belgium]].

On 1 January 2015 the municipality had 4,200 inhabitants.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibz.rrn.fgov.be/fileadmin/user_upload/fr/pop/statistiques/population-bevolking-20150101.pdf |title=Chiffres de population au 1er janvier 2015 |publisher=Belgian Interior Ministry |access-date=October 16, 2018}}</ref> Its total area is 81.79&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, giving it a [[population density]] of 45.7 inhabitants per km<sup>2</sup>.

The municipality consists of the following [[deelgemeente|districts]]: [[Bellefontaine, Wallonia|Bellefontaine]], [[Rossignol, Wallonia|Rossignol]], [[Saint-Vincent, Wallonia|Saint-Vincent]], and Tintigny. Other population centers include Ansart, Breuvanne, Han, Lahage, and Poncelle.

== History ==
Three-quarters of the village of Tintigny was burned down on August 22, 1914: 183 houses in the village were destroyed. These facts are attributable in particular to the 38th IR and 51st IR of the German Imperial Army. Falsely accused of being snipers, 93 local residents were killed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Horne |first=John |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181355815 |title=1914, les atrocités allemandes |date=2005 |publisher=Tallandier |others=Alan Kramer |isbn=2-84734-235-4 |location=Paris |oclc=181355815}}</ref>

On the same day, at Rossignol, one of the great disasters of the Battle of the Borders took place during the fighting at Rossignol: the 3rd French colonial infantry division, an elite corps made up mostly of volunteers who had already seen fire, was surrounded and annihilated by the XI and XII Infantry Divisions of the German VI Silesian Corps.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Les Combats de la 3° division coloniale à Rossignol le 22 août 1914 |url=http://www.rossignol.free.fr/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=www.rossignol.free.fr}}</ref> Ernest Psichari, killed in this battle, rests in the military cemetery of Rossignol3. Despite their victory, the Germans, exhausted by this battle slowing them down in their advance towards Paris, attacked the population. They deported 120 inhabitants of Rossignol and neighboring villages and shot them in Arlon on August 26, 1914, at the current Place des Fusillés, named after them in their memory.

==See also==
* [[List of protected heritage sites in Tintigny]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline}}

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Tintigny
|N  = [[Léglise]]
|E  = [[Habay]]<br/>[[Étalle, Belgium|Étalle]]
|SE = [[Virton]]
|S  = [[Meix-devant-Virton]]
|W  = [[Chiny]]<br/>[[Florenville]]
}}

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