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Las arras, or las arras matrimoniales (English: arrhae, wedding tokens, or unity coins [1]) are wedding paraphernalia used in Christian wedding ceremonies in Spain, Latin American countries, and the Philippines.
Arras is located in northern France in the Hauts-de-France region. Hauts-de-France is divided into five departments: Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Somme, Oise, and Aisne. Arras is in the south-east part of the Pas-de-Calais department and forms the Arras district (arrondissement d'Arras) in the Artois, a former province of northern France.
If not just called "hangings" or "cloths", they were known as "arras", from the period when Arras was the leading production centre. Arazzo is still the term for tapestry in Italian, while a number of European languages use variants based on Gobelins , after the French factory; for example both Danish and Hungarian use gobelin (and in Danish ...
The Vauban Citadel, located in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, was built by Vauban from 1667 to 1672. The Citadel has been nicknamed La belle inutile (the beautiful useless one) by residents as it has never been directly involved in heavy fighting, and ultimately failed to prevent the Germans from occupying the city in either World War.
Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. Arras may also refer to: People and places. August Arras (1881–1968), Estonian politician;
The Communauté urbaine d'Arras is the communauté urbaine, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Arras. It is located in the Pas-de-Calais department, in the Hauts-de-France region, northern France. It was created in January 1998, replacing the previous district urbain d'Arras. Its area is 306.0 km 2. Its population was 108,347 in ...
Artois occupies the interior of the Pas-de-Calais département, [1] the western part of which constitutes the former Boulonnais.Artois roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Arras, Béthune, Saint Omer, and Lens, and the eastern part of the arrondissement of Montreuil.
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