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    Upper Normandy (French: Haute-Normandie, IPA: [ot nɔʁmɑ̃di] ; Norman: Ĥâote-Normaundie) is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016...
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    coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular Normandy (mostly the British Channel Islands)...
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    administrative regions: Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy; the regions were merged into one single region on 1 January 2016. Upper Normandy (Haute-Normandie) consisted...
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    passant or, is used in both former regions of France: Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy. It is based on the design of arms which had been attributed...
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    close to the Prime Meridian. Le Havre is the most populous commune of Upper Normandy, although the total population of the greater Le Havre conurbation is...
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    region of France. On 1 January 2016, Lower and Upper Normandy merged becoming one region called Normandy. The region included three departments, Calvados...
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    correspond to the present borders of Lower Normandy, Upper Normandy and the Channel Islands. Mainland Normandy was integrated into the Kingdom of France...
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  • of France Normandy may also refer to: Upper Normandy, a former region of France Lower Normandy, a former region of France Duchy of Normandy (ca. 912–1465)...
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  • List of the museums in Upper Normandy, France: Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museums in Normandie. Château-musée de Dieppe Écomusée de la Basse...
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    Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western...
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  • This list of castles in Normandy is a list of medieval castles or château forts in the regions of Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy in northern France. Links...
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    However, the combined region of Upper and Lower Normandy was simply called "Normandy" (Normandie). Permanent names were proposed by the...
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    The Duchy of Normandy grew out of the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between King Charles III of West Francia and the Viking leader Rollo. The duchy...
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    Normans (redirect from King of Normandy)
    Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norse Viking settlers and locals of West...
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    Metropolitan France contains a total of 16,900,000 hectares (65,000 sq mi) of tree coverage, with 13,800,000 hectares (53,000 sq mi) considered to be forestry...
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  • January 2016 by reunification of the separate regions Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy. Rouen is the regional capital, while Caen is the seat of the...
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    Château du Champ de Bataille (category Historic house museums in Normandy)
    is a château located in the Eure department of the French region of Upper Normandy. It's a Baroque château lying between the communes of Neubourg and...
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    architecture of Normandy spans a thousand years. In Upper Normandy and in the pays d'Auge, Mortainais, Passais and Avranchin (Lower Normandy), the vernacular...
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    of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy (as William II) from 1035 onward. By 1060, following a long struggle, his hold on Normandy was secure. In 1066, following...
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    This is a list of trolleybus systems in France by region. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present. Bold text indicates a system that is still...
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    This is a list of châteaux in the French region of Normandy. Château d'Ailly in Bernières-d'Ailly Balleroy Castle in Balleroy Château de Beaumont-le-Richard...
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  • amusement parks in Europe sorted by region. Hirschalm, Unterweißenbach, Upper Austria (Hirschalm Fairytale Hunting Park) Märchenpark Neusiedlersee, St...
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    Trinité de Fécamp), is a Benedictine abbey in Fécamp, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France. The abbey is known as the first producer of bénédictine, a...
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    eastern Bay of Plenty Thames, Coromandel Peninsula Trentham Racecourse, Upper Hutt, near Wellington Waikouaiti, north of Dunedin Waimate, south Canterbury...
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  • Mandeville was from Thil-Manneville, in Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandy (upper Normandy). An important Domesday tenant-in-chief, de Mandeville was one...
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    received the forfeited Saint-Saens lands, which were very near his own in upper Normandy. In this way king Henry further assured his loyalty, for the successful...
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    Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (category Mayors of places in Normandy)
    July 2020 Preceded by Yvon Robert President of the Regional Council of Upper Normandy In office 14 October 2013 – 31 December 2015 Preceded by Alain Le Vern...
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  • Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu potentially gave William a powerful ally in upper Normandy. But at the Council of Reims in 1049, when the marriage of William with...
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    left had never before won control of Lower Normandy. The left retained its traditional hold on Upper Normandy. The right loses the normally conservative...
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    fortification. In December he was appointed to a regional command in Upper Normandy, but had to defend the town of Sées from a siege. On 10 March 1433,...
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