Proper noun
A city in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and the préfecture of the département of Var, in France.
A small city, the county seat of Stark County, Illinois, United States.
Source: en.wiktionary.org20th century During World War II, after the Allied landings in North Africa ( Operation Torch ) the German Army occupied southern France ( Case Anton ), leading to the scuttling of the French Fleet at Toulon (27 November 1942). Source: Internet
About 15,000 royalists escaped with the British fleet, but five to eight hundred of the 7,000 who remained were shot on the Champ de Mars, and Toulon was renamed "Port la Montagne". Source: Internet
A legend which states that a certain Cleon accompanied St. Lazarus to Gaul and was the founder of the Church of Toulon, is based on a 14th-century forgery that was ascribed to a 6th-century bishop named Didier. Source: Internet
After the Villa Savoye Corbusier's experimentation with Surrealism informed his design for the Beistegui apartments, but his next villa design, for Mademoiselle Mandrot near Toulon had a regionalist agenda and relied on local stone for its finish. Source: Internet
Adkins, p. 9 On 7 June, following hasty repairs to his flagship, a fleet consisting of ten ships of the line and a fourth-rate joined Nelson off Toulon. Source: Internet
Allied landing craft put ashore 66,000 soldiers and 6,500 tactical vehicles along a 30-mile stretch of the French Riviera between the cities of Toulon and Cannes. Source: Internet