Calvados is a department in the Normandy region of northwestern France, with Caen serving as its capital. Its name calva dorsa means "bare backs" in Latin, referring to the group of rocks off its coast, and it was one of the 83 original departments created in 1790 during the French Revolution. After the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, Calvados was occupied by Prussian troops from June 1815 to November 1818. On 6 June 1944, the Allied Liberation of France began in the Calvados department during D-Day and Operation Overlord. Calvados' politics are evenly matched between conservatives on one side and social democrats and liberals on the other; in 2019, Calvados had a population of 694,905 people.
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