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Saint-Lambert, Calvados

commune in Calvados, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ550375 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saint-Lambert (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lɑ̃bɛʁ] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Geography

The commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande.

The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, La Prévotière, Le Bisson, Le Jardin, La Vardière, La Bondinière, La Loge and Saint-Lambert.

The river Orne plus three streams The Herbion, The Hamelet and The Val Fournet are the four watercourses running through the commune.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 81-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Saint-Lambert, Calvados and commune can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as commune in Calvados, France. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q550375. Authority coordinates are 48.937, -0.549. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saint-Lambert, Calvados” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.