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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 which...
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    The Nord-Pas-de-Calais cuisine is a French regional cuisine, whose specialties are largely inherited from the county of Flanders. The region has always...
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  • The culture of Nord-Pas-de-Calais is a component of French culture where multiple influences intertwine. The region has always been a crossroads of Europe...
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    Les Mystères du Nord-Pas-de-Calais: Histoires insolites, étranges, criminelles et extraordinaires [Mysteries of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais: Unusual, strange...
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    Visse, Jean-Paul (1 January 2004). La presse du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais au temps de l'Écho du Nord: 1819-1944 (in French). Presses Univ. Septentrion...
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  • Vélo-club de Roubaix, which Vallaeys founded in 1966, formed Les Amis de Paris–Roubaix in 1982 at a photo exhibition at the Maison du Nord-Pas de Calais in Paris...
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  • (ed.). Le Nord-Pas-de-Calais en 1958. Histoire de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest (in French). Villeneuve-d'Ascq: IRHIS, CEGES, Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille...
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    Le Touquet (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    de cas sur le littoral du Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Bunker archeology : principles and studies of samples on the Nord-Pas-de- Calais coast)". Bulletin de l'Association...
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    Cambrai (category Communes of Nord (French department))
    94,576 inhabitants in 2018. With Lille and the towns of the former Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin, it is also part of the Metropolitan area of Lille [fr]...
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    (Calvados): 96% Calais (Pas-de-Calais) : 95% Vire (Calvados): 95% Royan (Charente-Maritime): 95% Le Portel (Pas-de-Calais) : 94% Dunkerque (Nord) : 90% Villers-Bocage...
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    La Coupole (category World War II in the Pas-de-Calais)
    (Northwest Gravel Works), is a Second World War bunker complex in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Saint-Omer...
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    first appeared in Lille in April 1941 at a time when the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais was being ruled by a German military government in Brussels. The newspaper's...
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    French government, in partnership with coal-mining companies in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments, developed the canal to help French coal mining companies...
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    Doctoral college of Université Lille Nord de France Mobility centre Lille Nord Pas de Calais Histoire de la Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Lille...
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    Dutch: Monsterole), Montreuil-on-the-Sea, is a subprefecture in the Pas-de-Calais Department in northern France. It was known as Montreuil until 31 December...
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    Fortress of Mimoyecques (category World War II in the Pas-de-Calais)
    Project 711"), it is located in the commune of Landrethun-le-Nord in the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France, near the hamlet of Mimoyecques about...
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    production regions are located in the northern half of the country: Nord-Pas-de-Calais (38% of the French total), Picardie (23%), Champagne-Ardenne and Haute-Normandie...
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  • its origins in the Pas-de-Calais and for several generations had notaries in Valenciennes. On 30 June 1880, Henry and Maximilian de Bettignies ceded their...
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    Arras (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    the Pas-de-Calais department, which forms part of the region of Hauts-de-France; before the reorganization of 2014 it was in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The...
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  • universities in the Euroregion that includes Belgium and the French Nord - Pas de Calais region. It aims to strengthen academic and research cooperation among...
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    Hilaire, Yves-Marie (ed.). Histoire de Roubaix [History of Roubaix]. Collection Histoire des villes du Nord/Pas-de-Calais (in French). Vol. 6. Dunkerque...
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    Siracourt V-1 bunker (category World War II in the Pas-de-Calais)
    forces of Nazi Germany at Siracourt, a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. Codenamed Wasserwerk St. Pol (Waterworks...
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  • Europe in Coquelles, near Calais. At the end of October 2011, the first Furet du Nord bookstore outside the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region opened; it was in...
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    Béthune (redirect from Gare de Béthune)
    the Pas-de-Calais department. Béthune is located in the former province of Artois. It is situated 73 kilometres (45 miles) south-east of Calais, 33 kilometres...
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    Opal Coast (French: Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale; ULCO) is a public university located in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments of northern France...
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    the TV Channel France 3 Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie 1981 : De Belges histoires 1992 : D'amoureuses histoires 1997 : Le temps de la bière 1997-98 : Lucasfilm...
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    Todt Battery (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    batteries côtières du Nord-Pas-de-Calais : Dunkerque, Calais, Boulogne, France 40, Mur de l'Atlantique (in French). Paris: Editions Histoire et Fortifications...
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    European Doctoral College Lille-Nord-Pas de Calais and of the Community of Universities and Institutions (COMUE) Lille Nord de France. On a national scale...
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  • and enlisted 300,000 men to the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments for the Armée du Nord. He attacked Maximilien de Robespierre on 9 thermidor, year...
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    students and are the core parts of the European Doctoral College Lille-Nord-Pas de Calais that includes 3,000 PhD Doctorate students supported by university...
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