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The Dieppe maps are a series of world maps and atlases produced in Dieppe, France, in the 1540s, 1550s, and 1560s. They are large hand-produced works, commissioned for wealthy and royal patrons, including Kings Henry II of France and Henry VIII of England .
On July 23, 1632, 300 colonists heading to New France departed from Dieppe. At the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Dieppe lost 3,000 of its Huguenot citizens, who fled abroad. Dieppe was an important target in wartime; the town was largely destroyed by an Anglo-Dutch naval bombardment in 1694. It was rebuilt after 1696 in a typical ...
The arrondissement of Dieppe is an arrondissement of France in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy région. It has 343 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 232,559 (2021), and its area is 3,120.1 km 2 (1,204.7 sq mi).
In the east, it borders on the Pays de Bray where the strata below the chalk show through. Cauchois is a notable dialect of the Norman language. The Pays de Caux is one of the remaining strongholds of the Norman language outside the Cotentin (or Cherbourg) peninsula. The principal communities are Le Havre, Dieppe, Fécamp, Yvetot, and Étretat.
The Communauté d'agglomération de la région Dieppoise, also known as Dieppe Maritime is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Dieppe. It is located in the Seine-Maritime department, in the Normandy region, northern France. It was created on 31 December 2002. [1] Its area is 129.0 km 2. Its ...
Bracquemont (French pronunciation:) is a former commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Petit-Caux. [2]
Area. 1. 12.91 km 2 (4.98 sq ... Bellencombre is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography ... south of Dieppe ...
Dieppe-sous-Douaumont (French pronunciation: [djɛp su dwomɔ̃], literally Dieppe under Douaumont) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. See also [ edit ]