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Map showing Calais in relation to Dover, London and Paris Map of Calais Calais is located on the Pas de Calais , which marks the boundary between the English Channel and North Sea and located at the opposite end of the Channel Tunnel , 40 kilometres (25 miles) [ 83 ] from Dover .
It has the most communes of all the departments of France, with 890, and is the 8th most populous. It had a population of 1,465,278 in 2019. [3] The Calais Passage connects to the Port of Calais on the English Channel. The Pas-de-Calais borders the departments of Nord and Somme and is connected to the English county of Kent via the Channel ...
Canal de Calais Maps and details of places, ports and moorings on the canal, including the port of Calais as an entry port into the French Waterways. Navigation details for 80 French rivers and canals (French waterways website section)
The Pale of Calais [a] was a territory in northern France ruled by the monarchs of England from 1347 to 1558. [1] The area, which centred on Calais, was taken following the Battle of Crécy in 1346 and the subsequent Siege of Calais, and was confirmed at the Treaty of Brétigny in 1360, in the reign of Edward III of England.
The Port of Calais was the first cable ship port in Europe and is the fourth largest port in France and the largest for passenger traffic. [3]After the Treaty of Le Touquet was signed by France and the UK on 4 February 2003, juxtaposed controls were established in the port.
Lens (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Picard: Linse) is a city in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. [3] It is one of the main towns of Hauts-de-France along with Lille, Valenciennes, Amiens, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Arras and Douai. The inhabitants are called Lensois (pronounced).
Map of the route of Edward III's chevauchée of 1346. Although Gascony was the cause of the war, Edward was able to spare few resources for it; whenever an English army had campaigned on the continent, it had operated in northern France. [6]
Azincourt (/ ˈ æ z ɪ n k ɔːr (t)/ AZ-in-kor(t) ; French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. [3] It is situated 12 miles (19 kilometres) north-west of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise on the D71 road between Hesdin and Fruges.