Pas-de-Calais
Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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in the
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (; pcd, Heuts-d'Franche; , also ''Upper France'') is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille. The ...
region of
France
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A farming village situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D36E and D10E roads.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St. Georges, rebuilt along with most of the commune, after
World War I
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.
* The
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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