The Port of Calais in northern France is the fourth largest port in France and the largest for passenger traffic. It accounts for more than a third of economic...
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Calais (UK: /ˈkæleɪ/ KAL-ay, US: /kæˈleɪ/ kal-AY, traditionally /ˈkælɪs/ KAL-iss, French: [kalɛ] ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of...
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population of 1,465,278 in 2019. The Calais Passage connects to the Port of Calais on the English Channel. The Pas-de-Calais borders the departments of Nord...
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siege of Calais (1940) was a battle for the port of Calais during the Battle of France. The siege was fought at the same time as the Battle of Boulogne...
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in and around Calais, on the northern French coast, since at least the late 1990s seeking to enter the United Kingdom from the French port by crossing the...
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the Battle of Crécy. A week later the English invested the well-fortified port of Calais, which had a strong garrison under the command of Jean de Vienne...
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closure in November 1994. France–UK border Channel Ports Port of Calais "About/Performance". Port of Dover. Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved...
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MS Spirit of Britain is a cross-channel ferry operated by P&O Ferries on the Dover-Calais route. She is the first of two 'Spirit' class ships built for...
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migrants from gaining access to the Channel Tunnel and from the port of Calais as a means of illegal entry to Britain. Construction, funded by Britain, began...
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Europe. Port of Durrës Port of Vlorë Port of Sarandë Vienna Linz Port of Ghent Port of Liège - an inland port Port of Burgas Port of Varna Port of Split, the...
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The Calais Jungle (known officially as Camp de la Lande) was a refugee and immigrant encampment in the vicinity of Calais, France that existed from January...
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copies. It commemorates an event during the Hundred Years' War, when Calais, a French port on the English Channel, surrendered to the English after an eleven-month...
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crossings (also known as ports of entry) over the St. Croix River connecting to St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada. Calais has been a city of commerce and is recognized...
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fighting followed by a French retreat. The English then laid siege to the port of Calais. The battle crippled the French army's ability to relieve the siege;...
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Nord-Pas-de-Calais (French pronunciation: [nɔʁ pɑ d(ə) kalɛ] ); Picard: Nord-Pas-Calés); is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January...
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MyFerryLink (redirect from Dover–Calais ferry (MyFerryLink))
Calais : Les bateaux de DFDS autorisés à rentrer au port au compte-gouttes". 26 June 2023. "Protesting French ferry workers blockading Port of Calais...
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Guînes Calais Amiens Saint-Omer The siege of Guînes took place from May to July 1352, when a French army under Geoffrey de Charny unsuccessfully attempted...
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Operation Undergo (redirect from Calais, 1944)
Infantry Division on the German garrison and fortifications of the French port of Calais, during September 1944. A subsidiary operation was executed to...
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Calais Lighthouse (French: Phare de Calais) is located in Calais in Pas-de-Calais. The Lighthouse is located in the residential streets near the Port...
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Calais-Ville station (French: Gare de Calais-Ville) is a railway station in the city centre of Calais, France. Gare de Ville opened in 1849, replacing...
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MS Isle of Innisfree is a passenger and car ferry to be operated by Irish Ferries between Dover and Calais. Originally built at Boelwerf as the Prins Filip...
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The Battle of Calais took place in 1350 when an English force defeated an unsuspecting French army which was attempting to take the city. Despite a truce...
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the "Calais", after the French port city of Calais that overlooks the narrowest point in the English Channel. In Greek mythology, Calais was one of two...
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Francis, Duke of Guise, seized the port of Calais from the English and moved to capture the city of Thionville in Philip II's duchy of Luxembourg on 22...
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A16 autoroute (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from December 2012)
one of the two main routes between the Port of Calais/Channel Tunnel and Paris, the other being the A26 and A1 route to the east. The vast majority of the...
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Irish Ferries (category Ferry companies of the Republic of Ireland)
and Calais being two major UK and French ports respectively. The service began with the MS Isle of Inishmore (1996) operating between the two ports, with...
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Juxtaposed controls (redirect from Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Government of the French Republic concerning the implementation of frontier controls at sea ports of both countries on the Channel and North Sea)
immigration officers stationed in Calais. A Joint Operational Coordination Centre has been created at the Port of Calais to strengthen co-operation between...
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The French siege of Calais in early 1558 was part of the Italian War of 1551–1559 between France and England and their respective allies. It resulted in...
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Arcadis (category Engineering companies of the Netherlands)
2019 Long Beach International Gateway, California, completed in 2020 Port of Calais Breakwater, France, completed in 2020 Six stations on the Sydney Metro...
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Calais connects the Aa River near Ruminghem to the inner basins of the Port of Calais. Many boats enter the French canal system through the port of Calais...
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