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  2. University of Rouen Normandy - Wikipedia

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    History and demographics. Located not in Rouen, but in the suburb of Mont-Saint-Aignan (a "township" in the Normandy region), the University of Rouen Normandy opened in 1966 as an off-shoot of the University of Caen. It is a large public university with over 25,000 students enrolled.

  3. History of Normandy - Wikipedia

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    History of Normandy. Normandy was a province in the North-West of what later became France under the Ancien Régime which lasted until the later part of the 18th century. Initially populated by Celtic tribes in the West and Belgic tribes in the North East, it was conquered in AD 98 by the Romans and integrated into the province of Gallia ...

  4. Normandy - Wikipedia

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    Normandy (French: Normandie; Norman: Normaundie or Nouormandie) [note 2] is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular Normandy (mostly the British Channel Islands ).

  5. Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial - Wikipedia

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    Grave markers at the cemetery. The cemetery is located on a bluff overlooking Omaha Beach (one of the landing beaches of the Normandy Invasion) and the English Channel.It covers 172.5 acres, and contains the remains of 9,388 American military dead, most of whom were killed during the invasion of Normandy and ensuing military operations in World War II.

  6. Mémorial de Caen - Wikipedia

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    Caen Memorial website. The Mémorial de Caen is a museum and war memorial in Caen, Normandy, France commemorating World War II and the Battle for Caen. More generally, the museum is dedicated to the history of the twentieth century, mainly focused on the fragility of peace. Its intention is "pay a tribute to the martyred city of the liberation ...

  7. Carentan - Wikipedia

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    Carentan (French pronunciation: [kaʁɑ̃'tɑ̃]) is a small rural town near the north-eastern base of the French Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy in north-western France, with a population of about 6,000. It is a former commune in the Manche department. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Carentan-les-Marais. [2]

  8. History of Rouen - Wikipedia

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    History of France. Rouen, France, was founded by the Gaulish tribe of Veliocasses, who controlled a large area in the lower Seine valley, which today retains a trace of their name as the Vexin. The Gauls named the settlement Ratumacos[1] and the Romans called it Rotomagus. [2] Roman Rotomagus was the second city of Gallia Lugdunensis, after ...

  9. Courseulles-sur-Mer - Wikipedia

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    More than 14,000 Canadians stormed the 8 kilometres (5 mi) stretch of a Lower Normandy Beach between Courseulles-sur-Mer and St. Aubin-sur-Mer on 6 June 1944. They were followed by 150,000 additional Canadian troops over the next few months, and throughout the summer of 1944 the Canadian military used the town’s port to unload upwards of 1,000 tons of material a day, for the first two weeks ...

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