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Commune of Amiens |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Picardie (préfecture) |
| Department | Somme (préfecture) |
| Arrondissement | Amiens |
| Canton | Chief town of 8 cantons |
| Intercommunality | Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole |
| Mayor | Gilles Demailly (PS) (2008-2014) |
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| Elevation | 14 m–106 m (avg. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Picardie ( English: Picardy is one of the 26 regions of France. A prefecture ( préfecture) in France can refer to: the Chef-lieu de département, the town in which the administration of a ''département'' In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division The Somme is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Amiens is an arrondissement of France located in the Somme département, in the Picardie région The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. The Communauté d'agglomération Amiens Métropole is a Communauté d'agglomération in the Somme département and in the Picardie A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government The Socialist Party ( Parti Socialiste, PS is the largest left-wing political party in France. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 33 m) |
| Land area¹ | 49. 46 km² |
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135,501 |
| - Density | 2,740/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 80021/ 80000 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E | |
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Amiens (IPA: [amjɛ̃]) is a city and commune in the north of France, 120 km north of Paris. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city It is the préfecture (capital city) of the Somme département and the Picardie region. A prefecture ( préfecture) in France can refer to: the Chef-lieu de département, the town in which the administration of a ''département'' The Somme is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Picardie ( English: Picardy is one of the 26 regions of France. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, It is considered the Picarde capital of France. Picard is a Language closely related to French, and as such is one of the larger group of Romance languages.
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History
 Coat of Arms of the City of Amiens |
The Paleolithic culture named Acheulean was named for its first identified site, in Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens. Acheulean (also spelled Acheulian,) is the name given to an Archaeological industry of Stone tool manufacture associated with prehistoric Hominins Amiens, the Roman Samarobriva, was the central settlement of the Ambiani, one of the principal tribes of Gaul, who were issuing coinage, probably from Amiens, in the first century BCE. The Ambiani were a Belgic people who were said to be able to muster 10000 armed men in 57 BCE the year of Julius Caesar 's Belgic campaign By tradition, it was at the gates of Amiens that Saint Martin of Tours, at the time still a Roman soldier, shared his cloak with a naked beggar. Saint Martin of Tours (Martinus (316/317 Savaria, Pannonia &ndash November 8, 317, Candes, Gaul; buried November Saint Honorius (Honoré) (d. For another Saint Honoratus (of Arles see Honoratus. For the archbishop of Canterbury see Saint Honorius. 600 CE) was the seventh bishop of the city.
Amiens was later the capital of Picardy. Picardy (Picardie is an historical Province of France, in the north of France.
During World War II, on 18 February 1944, Nazi-occupied Amiens was the site of Operation Jericho, a British operation which freed 258 people by bombing Amiens prison. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Events 3102 BC - Epoch (origin of the Kali Yuga. 1229 - The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II Holy Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Operation Jericho was a low-level World War II bombing raid by Allied aircraft on Amiens Prison in German -occupied France
Sister cities
Sights
Amiens Cathedral (a World Heritage Site) is the tallest of the large 'classic' Gothic churches of the 13th century and is the largest in France of its kind. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Darlington is a town in County Durham, England and the main population centre in the Borough of Darlington. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens (French Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens) or simply Amiens Cathedral, is the tallest complete Cathedral in A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex See also Gothic art Gothic architecture is a style of Architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. After a fire destroyed the former cathedral, the new nave was begun in 1220 - and finished in 1247. In Romanesque and Gothic Christian Abbey, Cathedral Basilica and church Architecture, the nave is the Amiens Cathedral is notable for the coherence of its plan, the beauty of its three-tier interior elevation, the particularly fine display of sculptures on the principal façade and in the south transept, and the labyrinth, and other inlays of its floor. In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth ( Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer It is described as the "Parthenon of Gothic architecture," and by John Ruskin as "Gothic, clear of Roman tradition and of Arabian taint, Gothic pure, authoritative, unsurpassable, and unaccusable. John Ruskin (8 February 1819 &ndash 20 January 1900 is best known for his work as an Art critic, sage writer, and Social critic, but is remembered "
Amiens is also known for the hortillonnages, gardens on small islands in the marshland along the Somme River, surrounded by a grid network of man-made canals.
Miscellaneous
- The Battle of Amiens was the opening phase of the Hundred Days Offensive in World War I. The Battle of Amiens, which began on 8 August 1918 was the opening phase of the Allied offensive later known as the Hundred Days Offensive that ultimately led The Hundred Days Offensive was the final period of World War I, where the Allies launched a series of offensives against the Central Powers on the World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All
- Jules Verne was a member of the city council of Amiens from 1888 to his death in 1905. Jules Gabriel Verne ( February 8 1828 &ndash March 24 1905) was a French Author who pioneered the science-fiction He is buried in the Madeleine Cemetery.
- Clovis Trouille, 1889-1975, was born in Amiens and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1905 to 1910. Camille Clovis Trouille, was born on 24 October 1889, in La Fère, France. École des Beaux-Arts ("School of Fine Arts" refers to a number of influential Art schools in France.
- Amiens was the birthplace of Peter the Hermit and Odette Sansom (1912-95), a heroic member of the French Resistance. Peter the Hermit (died July 8 1115 in Neufmoutier by Huy) was a priest of Amiens and a key figure during the First Crusade. Odette Marie Céline Sansom, (née Brailly GC, MBE, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, ( 28 April The French Resistance is the collective name used for the French Resistance movements which fought against the Nazi German
- Édouard Lucas, 1842-1891, a French mathematician and inventor of the Tower of Hanoi game was born in Amiens. François Édouard Anatole Lucas ( April 4, 1842 in Amiens - October 3, 1891) was a French Mathematician. The Tower of Hanoi or Towers of Hanoi (also known as The Towers of Bramha) is a Mathematical game or Puzzle.
- Amiens is celebrated for a treaty of peace between France and Great Britain concluded in 1802.
- Amiens is home to Amiens SC, a football team in Ligue 2, the second-highest league in French football. Amiens Sporting Club ( Amiens SC) is a French Soccer club based in Amiens, currently playing in Ligue 2, the second highest Ligue 2 is the second division of French football. It is one of two divisions making up the LFP, the other being Ligue 1, which is France's top Football in France is governed by the French Football Federation (Fédération Française de Football or FFF
- Amiens is also a setting in the video game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem is a Psychological horror Video game originally planned for the Nintendo 64 but later released exclusively
- Amiens was the setting for much of Sebastian Faulks wartime novel Birdsong
- Amiens hosted the 1913 French Grand Prix
See also
External links
- Official website
- Hortillons: http://perso.club-internet.fr/claudine.bienaime/parcsjardins.htm#parchortillons
- Amiens Cathedral in the Structurae database
- Photos of Amiens including the illumination of the Cathedral by night
- The Cathedral of Amiens colored !
- Columbia University Media Center for Art History - Amiens Cathedral Website
- Amiens - Business Directory
- Pictures of Amiens and the Somme
- Old Postcards of Amiens
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