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Today, Picardy, in its various definitions, is largely contained within the Hauts-de-France region and spread across its five departments. Part of the linguistic Picardy is in the Wallonia region of Belgium , in the Hainaut Province , and a small portion of the historic Beauvaisis is in the northern part of the Val-d'Oise department, around ...
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During World War II, a second treaty was signed in the forest, this time arranging the Armistice between France and Nazi Germany (22 June 1940). [35] With an unmistakable desire to humiliate his defeated enemy, [ 34 ] German dictator Adolf Hitler gave orders that the surrender should be received in exactly the same spot, even the same railway ...
Français : Carte administrative vierge de la département de la Picardie, France, destinée à la géolocalisation. English: Blank administrative map of the region of en:Picardie , France , for geo-location purpose.
665 - Saint Wilfrid was consecrated Bishop of York.Wilfrid refused to be consecrated in Northumbria at the hands of Anglo-Saxon bishops. Deusdedit, Archbishop of Canterbury, had died, and as there were no other bishops in Britain whom Wilfrid considered to have been validly consecrated, he travelled to Compiègne, to be consecrated by Agilbert, the Bishop of Paris.
The Santerre (French pronunciation:; Picard: Santérre) is a natural region of France, located in the center of the administrative region of Picardy.. Located between Amiens and Saint-Quentin, the Santerre is a territory covering an area of about 3,000 km 2, including 242 communes and with a population of 106,489 inhabitants.
Montdidier (French pronunciation:; Picard: Montdidji or Mondidji) is a commune in the Somme department in the administrative region of Hauts-de-France (historically Picardy), northern France. Geography
The Ancient Diocese of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, [3] has always held strategic importance. In the time of Julius Caesar there was a Gallic village named Bibrax where the Remis (inhabitants of the country round Reims) had to meet the onset of the confederated Belgae. [4]