Mussidan (French pronunciation: [mysidɑ̃]; Occitan: Moissida) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Mussidan station has rail connections to Bordeaux, Périgueux, Brive-la-Gaillarde and Limoges.

[5] On 11 June 1944 Francs-Tireurs et Partisans[6] destroyed a German armoured train at Mussidan station.

At the same time a convoy of the 11th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht arrived from Bordeaux.

As a reprisal, a detachment of the Gestapo from Périgueux led by Second Lieutenant Michaël Hambrecht, reinforced by a platoon led by Alexandre Villaplane, head of one of the five sections of the North African Brigade and former captain of the France football team at the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay, 350 men over the age of sixteen from the city and its surroundings were arrested.