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Ablaincourt-Pressoir is a
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in the
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department in
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in northern
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. The two villages were formerly separately administered, but were joined in 1966.


Geography

Ablaincourt-Pressoir is found in the Santerre sub-region, where early French Kings made their base, at
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.
The town is in a strategic position close to the intersections of the A1
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autoroute and the A29 autoroute between
Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...
and Saint-Quentin. Two departmental roads meet nearby (the D150 and the D164). The town also an international
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rail station, the
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, nicknamed "''The sugar-beet station''" named after the predominant crop of the area.


Etymology; Ancient forms of the names

* Ablaincourt Abatix Curtis, Habelini Curtis (1046), Ablani Curtis, Ableni Curia (1106), Abbecourt (1144), Abiaucourt (1215), Ablaincort (1230), Ablincourt (1733) and finally, Ablaincourt, which signifies an abbey. * Pressoir Pressurs or Drêsur (1180).


History

* Ablaincourt In 1215, Jean I de Nesle built a castle here. Remains of the
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can still be seen, which marks out the position of the keep. In 1648, possession of the fiefdom of Ablaincourt passed from the Blattepière family to the Mathieu family. During
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Ablaincourt et Pressoir were at the centre of the
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. Both communes were totally ruined by the fighting.


Demographics

Data before 1966 in the table and graph below refer to the old commune Ablaincourt, before the merger with Pressoir. The population of Pressoir was 144 in 1851, 106 in 1896 and 64 in 1962.


People

* Eloi Driencourt, born in the hamlet of Bovent, Ablaincourt, doctor of the
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and for a while, advisor to
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's queen,
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(1703–1768). *
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was elected in March 1995 and became the youngest mayor of Ablaincourt-Pressoir, at the age of 28. *
Reinhard Johannes Sorge Reinhard Sorge (29 January 1892, Berlin, German Empire – 20 July 1916, Ablaincourt, France) was a German dramatist and poet. He is best known for writing the Expressionist play '' The Beggar'' (''Der Bettler''), which won the Kleist Pri ...
, a German
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poet and dramatist, died at a First Aid post located at the ruins of Ablaincourt-Pressoir on 20 July 1916. Sorge had been wounded by a
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during the
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.


See also

*
Communes of the Somme department The following is a list of the 772 communes of the Somme department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Somme (department)