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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 Somme (UK: / s ɒ m / SOM, US: / s ʌ m / SUM, [1] [2] French: ⓘ) is a river in Picardy, northern France. The river is 245 km (152 mi) in length, from its source in the high ground of the former Arrouaise Forest [ fr ] at Fonsomme near Saint-Quentin , to the Bay of the Somme , in the English Channel .
The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme; German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a major battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire.
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]
The Somme – From Defeat to Victory, BBC TV documentary; Military. French tanker Somme, a French Navy tanker and command ship; HMS Somme, a British World War I S ...
Location of Sorel. Sorel ... Country: France: Region: Hauts-de-France: Department: Somme: ... ) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern ...
The arrondissement of Abbeville is an arrondissement in the Somme department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. It has 164 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 122,466 (2021), and its area is 1,560.6 km 2 (602.6 sq mi).
Location; Country: France: Physical characteristics ... Somme→ English Channel: The Avre (French pronunciation:) is a river in Picardy, France, and is the principal ...