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Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to Newhaven in England. Famous for its scallops, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century castle and the churches of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Remi. The mouth of the river Scie lies at Hautot-sur-Mer, directly to the west of ...
Dieppe (/ d i ˈ ɛ p /) is a city in the Canadian maritime province of New Brunswick. Statistics Canada counted the population at 28,114 in 2021, [1] making it the fourth-largest city in the province. On 1 January 2023, Dieppe annexed parts of two neighbouring local service districts; [4] revised census figures have not been released.
Dieppe was a German propaganda coup in which the Dieppe raid was described as a military joke, noting the amount of time needed to plan such an attack, combined with the losses suffered by the Allies, pointed only to incompetence. [74]
The Château de Dieppe is a castle in the French town of Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime département. [1] The castle was founded in 1188 by King Henry II of England, but was destroyed in 1195 by King Philip II of France. The site was restored in the 14th century. The castle was later in large part reconstructed in 1433 by Charles des Marets.
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 ...
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 .
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).
Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe (formerly known as Moncton) is a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. History [ edit ]