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By the early 1950s, Nord-Pas-de-Calais had regained its industrial strength, primarily in traditional sectors like textiles, coal, and steel, which were starting to decline. [38] This period also marked the advent of regional television with the creation of Télé-Lille in 1950, the first regional television station in France.
In the 19th century, the economic prosperity of Nord-Pas-de-Calais led to an unprecedented flourishing of the Fine Arts. [2] More recently, Nord-Pas-de-Calais has experienced new cultural mixtures with the strong Polish immigration during the interwar period and from the 1960s when the regional industry recruited workers from the Maghreb.
The proportion of Poles reached 70% in Fouquières-lès-Lens, in the area of the Compagnie des mines de Courrières, but the arrondissement of Béthune accounted for 90% of the 135,000 Poles living in the Pas-de-Calais, which itself was home to a third of France's 150,000 Poles, including families, a proportion that rises to a third if the Nord ...
Hesdin (French pronunciation:; West Flemish: Heusdin) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. [3] Geography ... In the 1950s, a circular ...
Ne résistez pas aux extra-terrestres [1] Marius Dewilde (1921–1996) [ 2 ] was a French railway worker who claimed to have become a contactee for two extraterrestrial life-forms in 1954. The encounter
The Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France (German: Militärverwaltung in Belgien und Nordfrankreich) was an interim occupation authority established during the Second World War by Nazi Germany that included present-day Belgium and the French departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. [1]
The Nord-Pas-de-Calais Mining Basin is a mining basin in Northern France that stretches across the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments. The region is famous for its long history of coal extraction and its testimony to a significant period in the history of industrialisation in Europe, and as a result it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2012. [1]
Nord-Pas-de-Calais France: Nord's 7th constituency: Francis Vercamer: UDI: May 10, 1958: Lille Nord-Pas-de-Calais France: Nord's 8th constituency: Dominique Baert: DVG: Oct 24, 1959: Tourcoing Nord-Pas-de-Calais France: Nord's 9th constituency: Bernard Gérard: UMP: Aug 29, 1953: Valenciennes Nord-Pas-de-Calais France: Nord's 10th constituency ...