Artois
Artois (French pronunciation: [aʁˈtwa]; adjective Artesian; Dutch: Artesië) is a former province of northern France. Its territory has an area of around 4,000 km² and a population of about one million.
Morbecque (Dutch: Moerbeke) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
Population: 2,873
Latitude: 50° 41' 37.14" N
Longitude: 2° 31' 4.33" E
Artois (French pronunciation: [aʁˈtwa]; adjective Artesian; Dutch: Artesië) is a former province of northern France. Its territory has an area of around 4,000 km² and a population of about one million.
The Le Paradis massacre was a war crime committed by members of the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under the command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein. It took place on 27 May 1940, during the Battle of France, at a time when the British Exp…
The Wormhoudt massacre (or Wormhout massacre) was the mass murder of 80 British and French POWs by Waffen-SS soldiers from the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during the Battle of France in May 1940.
Mont des Cats is a small hill (alt. 164m) near the town of Godewaersvelde, in French Flanders. Its name in Dutch is Katsberg.
The Fontinettes Boat Lift (French: Ascenseur des Fontinettes) was built in 1888 on the Canal de Neufosse and connected the River Aa and the Neufossé Canal in Arques, near Saint-Omer in the Pas-de-Calais to connect in France.
The Lawe is a river of northern France, right tributary of the Lys. Its source is near Magnicourt-en-Comte. It flows generally northeast through Houdain, Bruay-la-Buissière, Béthune and Lestrem.
The Laquette is a river of northern France, right tributary of the Lys.
Brasserie Thiriez is a small craft brewery located in Esquelbecq, a town in the Arrondissement of Dunkirk in the Nord département, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais région of France, quite close to the Belgian border.
The Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois (Artois Comm.) is an administrative entity in the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France.
Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) burial ground for the dead of the First World War located in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front.
La Motte-aux-Bois is a former commune in the Nord department in northern France.
The Clarence is a river in northern France whose 32-kilometre (20 mi) course crosses the département of Pas-de-Calais.
The Peene Becque is a small river in Nord département in France. The word Peene may be related to the modern Dutch word Peen that refers to the wild carrot plant (Daucus carota), while becque is the transliteration of the Dutch word beek, referring …
The Nave is a river in France, located in the department of Pas-de-Calais.
Vis-à-Marles is a railway station located in the French commune of Marles-les-Mines (Pas-de-Calais).