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Inhabited since prehistoric times, the Pas-de-Calais region was populated in turn by the Celtic Belgae, the Romans, the Germanic Franks and the Alemanni.During the fourth and fifth centuries, the Roman practice of co-opting Germanic tribes to provide military and defence services along the route from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Cologne created a Germanic-Romance linguistic border in the region that ...
English: Blank administrative map of the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, as in January 2007, for geo-location purpose, with distinct boundaries for regions, departments and arrondissements. Français : Carte administrative vierge de la région Nord-Pas-de-Calais , France, telle qu'en janvier 2007, destinée à la géolocalisation, avec ...
Nord-Pas de Calais is the second main region for the automotive industry in France after Île de France (Paris region). The sector trade fair, the Forum on European Automotive Industry in Lille Region (FEAL), [ 54 ] takes place biennially to showcase the industry of the region and its importance for France and Europe.
The shortest distance across the strait, at approximately 20 miles (32 kilometres), is from the South Foreland, northeast of Dover in the English county of Kent, to Cap Gris Nez, a cape near to Calais in the French département of Pas-de-Calais. Between these points lies the most popular route for cross-channel swimmers. [1]
Module:Location map/data/France Pas-de-Calais is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Pas-de-Calais. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Artois occupies the interior of the Pas-de-Calais département, [1] the western part of which constitutes the former Boulonnais.Artois roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Arras, Béthune, Saint Omer, and Lens, and the eastern part of the arrondissement of Montreuil.
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