Lalinde
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Commune of Lalinde |
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| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Aquitaine |
| Department | Dordogne |
| Arrondissement | Bergerac |
| Canton | Lalinde (chef-lieu) |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes du Bassin Lindois |
| Mayor | Pierre Alain Péris (2001-2008) |
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| Elevation | 25 m–194 m (avg. 47 m) |
| Land area¹ | 27,7 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
2966 |
| - Density | 107/km² |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 24223/ 24150 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Lalinde (La Linda in Occitan) is a commune of the Dordogne département, in France, bordered by the Dordogne River and enclosed within fortified town walls.
In its past it had become a strategically important military site; it suffered various sieges during the Hundred Years' War and again in 1562 and 1572 during the Wars of Religion.
The train station was built in 1877 and the bridge over the Dordogne River in 1880.
In 1944 the local Resistance paid a heavy price when on 21 June many of Lalinde’s sons perished in the tragic Mouleydier massacre.
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