Vieux-Lille (Old Lille) is a district in the north of Lille. It is the district with the most pre-19th-century buildings. It still boasts many cobbled...

Saint-Pierre was once a large church located in Vieux-Lille, and for almost 750 years it set the pace for Lille's religious life. Seriously damaged during the...

first urban nucleus, the castrum, around the year 1000. In 1325 the most expensive "rentes" (royalties) paid by the people of Lille to the "Maison Saint-Nicolas"...

Place du Général-de-Gaulle is an urban public space situated in the commune of Lille, Hauts-de-France region. It is the town's historic main square. It...

for this alliance, King Philip II attacked Lille, which was burned (with the exception of the fortified castrum and churches) in 1213. In Damme, the French...

inhabitants in 2018. With Lille and the towns of the former Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin, it is also part of the Metropolitan area of Lille [fr] which has more...

Cuvée, Linz in Austria, De Kleine Biennale Utrecht in Holland, Centrum Kultury ZAMEK in Poznań, Istanbul Modern Turkey (2014), Castrum Peregrini Amsterdam...

Basilica of Saint Severinus of Bordeaux and Notre-Dame-de-la-Place, located in the old castrum or Roman fortified town. It appears more officially in...

religious shrine, a Roman bath, a granary, some houses and the 4th-century castrum walls and gates, have been excavated. Fragments of provincial Roman sculptures...

éléments anciens dans une ville moderne (thèse de doctorat) (in French). Vol. I & II. Lille: Université de Lille. Mabire La Caille, Claire Mabire (1985). "Contribution...

competing centres. The "City" in the east, successor of the late Roman 'castrum', was composed of the cathedral and palace of the archbishops as well as...

such as Lübeck and Flensburg, in what is now Germany. The king's castle, Castrum Wæthel, was located where Vejle Trafikcenter is today. In the late 17th...

shortly before the Battle of Crécy in 1346. Just halfway between Rouen and Lille, it is the historical capital of the County of Ponthieu and maritime Picardy...

Aurelianum (451) by Attila Siege of Aquileia (452) by Attila Siege of Castrum Cainonense (463) Siege of Singidunum (472) Siege of Taragona (472) Siege...

Vallis; and Lavallis appears in 1080. Other Latin names include Valles and Castrum de Valibus. Lavallum Guidonis is first written in 1239. After the Renaissance...

Carthaginian Wars ended in 146 BC, it received municipal rights. The original castrum then expanded towards the current areas of Santa Maria di Castello and...

town and the city. The town, an ancient site, was surrounded with the castrum of the episcopal chateau built on the Rock. The two neighbourhoods functioned...

name of the town was recorded in the 5th century as Civitas Turba ubi castrum Bigòrra (The town of Turba (possibly 'of the crowd') where the castle of...

Carthaginian Wars ended in 146 BC, it received municipal rights. The original castrum then expanded towards the current areas of Santa Maria di Castello and...

describes an elevation with a fortified watchtower and speaks of "Castrum Vesulium". Castrum is a fortification, and "Vesulium" has the syllable ves which...

ceaster ("(Roman) fort, fortification, town", itself borrowed from Latin castrum). A list of British cities in the ninth-century History of the Britons...

century, when it became the seat of a powerful countship known as Blesum castrum by the counts of Blois. The Robertians were at the head of the county of...

Bertoldstraße). In approximately 1091, Berthold II of Zähringen built a castle, Castrum de Friburch, on top of the modern-day Schlossberg in order to control the...

Bishop Balderic travelled to visit him and he counseled him to leave his "castrum", possibly Valenciennes itself, or possibly Visé, to the bishopric. Balderic...

Tyre noted the presence of a burgus (tower) in Safed, which he called "Castrum Saphet" or "Sephet", in 1157. Safed was the seat of a castellany (area...

Fortress, which is Scandinavia's largest ruin site. It includes ruins from Castrum Tunsbergis, Norway's largest castle in the 13th century. An outdoor music...

historiques". Ministère de la Culture. "Liste des monuments pour lesquels des secours ont été demandés" (PDF). Ministère de la culture. Choay, Françoise...

chapters of canons. These included: Baranum (dean and 12 canons), Castrum novum [Castelnau de Magnoac] (10 canons, 2 prebendiaries), Jégun (8 canons), Nogaroli...

WÉDERIC né de MAILLY-de-BOURGOGNE, sire de Mailly & Fauverney (21), (par alliance) de Guise (02), 1e baron de Bourgogne ; châtelain de Lille (59) ; tige...