Nord-Pas-de-Calais (French pronunciation: [nɔʁ pɑ d(ə) kalɛ] ; Picard: Nord-Pas-Calés; West Flemish: Nôord-Nauw van Kales) is a former administrative...
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Calais (UK: /ˈkæleɪ/ KAL-ay, US: /kæˈleɪ/ kal-AY, traditionally /ˈkælɪs/ KAL-iss, French: [kalɛ] ) is a French port city in the Pas-de-Calais department...
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The culture of Nord-Pas-de-Calais is a component of French culture where multiple influences intertwine. The region has always been a crossroads of Europe...
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The Nord-Pas-de-Calais cuisine is a French regional cuisine, whose specialties are largely inherited from the county of Flanders. The region has always...
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Montreuil-sur-Mer (redirect from Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais)
Dutch: Monsterole), Montreuil-on-the-Sea, is a subprefecture in the Pas-de-Calais Department in northern France. Though commonly called by this name since...
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first appeared in Lille in April 1941 at a time when the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais was being ruled by a German military government in Brussels. The newspaper's...
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French government, in partnership with coal-mining companies in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments, developed the canal to help French coal mining companies...
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Polish immigration to the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coalfield took place before and especially after the First World War. It took place mainly in the second half...
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its origins in the Pas-de-Calais and for several generations had notaries in Valenciennes. On 30 June 1880, Henry and Maximilian de Bettignies ceded their...
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Fortress of Mimoyecques (category World War II in the Pas-de-Calais)
Project 711"), it is located in the commune of Landrethun-le-Nord in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France, near the hamlet of Mimoyecques about...
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Europe in Coquelles, near Calais. At the end of October 2011, the first Furet du Nord bookstore outside the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region opened; it was in...
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US Tourquennoise (category Sport in Nord (French department))
since 2014–2015 after finishing first in the Division Honneur of Nord-Pas-de-Calais during the 2013–2014 season, but were relegated back to the sixth...
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and enlisted 300,000 men to the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments for the Armée du Nord. He attacked Maximilien de Robespierre on 9 thermidor, year...
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Les Mystères du Nord-Pas-de-Calais: Histoires insolites, étranges, criminelles et extraordinaires [Mysteries of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais: Unusual, strange...
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La Coupole (category World War II in the Pas-de-Calais)
(Northwest Gravel Works), is a Second World War bunker complex in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Saint-Omer...
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Visse, Jean-Paul (1 January 2004). La presse du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais au temps de l'Écho du Nord: 1819-1944 (in French). Presses Univ. Septentrion...
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out several test pits and then opened a pit at Marchiennes in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coalfield. Its name refers to the battalion of sedentary gunners from...
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Roubaix (redirect from Roubaix, Hauts-de-France)
Hilaire, Yves-Marie (ed.). Histoire de Roubaix [History of Roubaix]. Collection Histoire des villes du Nord/Pas-de-Calais (in French). Vol. 6. Dunkerque...
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European Doctoral College Lille-Nord-Pas de Calais and of the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France. On a national scale...
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Paris–Roubaix (redirect from Enfer du Nord)
Vélo-club de Roubaix, which Vallaeys founded in 1966, formed Les Amis de Paris–Roubaix in 1982 at a photo exhibition at the Maison du Nord-Pas de Calais in Paris...
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University of Lille Doctoral College (redirect from European Doctoral College Lille-Nord-Pas de Calais)
universities in the Euroregion that includes Belgium and the French Nord - Pas de Calais region. It aims to strengthen academic and research cooperation among...
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(Calvados): 96% Calais (Pas-de-Calais) : 95% Vire (Calvados): 95% Royan (Charente-Maritime): 95% Le Portel (Pas-de-Calais) : 94% Dunkerque (Nord) : 90% Villers-Bocage...
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France–United Kingdom relations (section De Gaulle)
Hampshire and Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine Folkestone, Kent and Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais Glasgow and Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône Gloucester, Gloucestershire...
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Béthune (redirect from Gare de Béthune)
the Pas-de-Calais department. Béthune is located in the former province of Artois. It is situated 73 kilometres (45 miles) south-east of Calais, 33 kilometres...
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1958 French presidential election (redirect from Election of Charles de Gaulle)
(ed.). Le Nord-Pas-de-Calais en 1958. Histoire de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest (in French). Villeneuve-d'Ascq: IRHIS, CEGES, Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille...
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Cambrai (category Communes of Nord (French department))
94,576 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]...
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des Chantiers de France", La Voix du Nord (in French), retrieved 2015-12-11 "What is Frac Nord-Pas de Calais?". Frac Nord-Pas de Calais?. Retrieved 2015-12-12...
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University of Artois (category University of Lille Nord de France)
(French: Université d'Artois) is a public university situated in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments of northern France. It is situated on 5 campuses in...
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Le Touquet (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
études de cas sur le littoral du Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Bunker archeology: principles and studies of samples on the Nord-Pas-de- Calais coast)". Bulletin de l'Association...
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Opal Coast (French: Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale; ULCO) is a public university located in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments of northern France...
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