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The Somme towns were strategically important in the 15th century conflict between the Valois dukes of Burgundy and the kings of France. [15] Picardy, the region in north eastern France in which they were located, lay between the French royal domain in the Île-de-France and the dukes' Low Countries possessions, the Burgundian Netherlands. [16]
Somme (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Picard: Sonme) is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. It is part of the Hauts-de-France region . It is bordered by Pas-de-Calais and Nord to the north, Aisne to the east, Oise to the south and Seine-Maritime to the southwest.
The Jules Verne Viaduct, 943 metres (3,094 ft) long, crosses the River Somme to the east of the city and allows circumvention of the city by motorway-type roads. The A16 and A29 autoroutes, the RN1 and the RN25 form a bypass-type motorway around the city that the population has called the Rocade d'Amiens [ fr ] or Amiens ring road.
The following is a list of the 772 communes of the Somme department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020): [1] Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole; Communauté d'agglomération de la Baie de Somme; Communauté de communes interrégionale Aumale - Blangy-sur-Bresle (partly)
Amiens (French pronunciation:) is a city and commune in northern France, 120 km (75 mi) north of Paris and 100 km (62 mi) south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie. The city had a population of 136,105 according to the 2006 census.
It was a key location in the Battle of the Somme in World War I, and World War I tourism is important for the town. The destruction of Albert during the First World War. Pictured is the railway station. Basilica of Notre-Dame de Brebières tower and statue. The mural depicts the damaged "Golden Virgin" statue as it appeared during the First ...
Decree of 2 June 1948: "Beautiful city, victim of the two World Wars, holder of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918, was the scene of violent fighting in 1940, during the Battle of the Somme. Suffered many bombardments from May 1940 to Liberation , which have caused the destruction of more than one-third of its houses and very painful human losses.
Y (French pronunciation: ⓘ ee) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Y bears the shortest place name in France, and one of the shortest in the world. [3] The inhabitants call themselves Ypsilonien(ne)s, [4] from the Greek letter Upsilon (Υ), which looks like the letter Y.