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Commune of Armentières |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
| Department | Nord |
| Arrondissement | Lille |
| Canton | Armentières (chief town) |
| Intercommunality | Lille Métropole |
| Mayor | Claude Hujeux (2001-2008) |
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| Elevation | 17 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, Nord-Pas de Calais (French Nord-Pas de Calais; Dutch Noord-Nauw van Kales) is one of the 26 regions of France. 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 Nord (North is a department in the far north of France. It is the country's most populated department The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Lille is an arrondissement of France located in the Nord department, in the Nord-Pas de Calais region. The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The Canton of Armentières is a canton of the Nord département in France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. The Urban Community of Lille Métropole ( French: Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine) is the intercommunal structure gathering the commune 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 elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. ) |
| Land area¹ | 6. 28 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
25,273 |
| - Density | 4,022/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 59017/ 59280 |
| 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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Armentières is a commune and the chief town of a canton of the département of Nord, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais région, in France. The following is a list of the 652 communes of the Nord département, in France. The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. 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 Nord (North is a department in the far north of France. It is the country's most populated department Nord-Pas de Calais (French Nord-Pas de Calais; Dutch Noord-Nauw van Kales) 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, This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. It is a component of the Urban Community of Lille Métropole, and lies on the Belgian border, northwest of the city of Lille, on the right bank of the river Lys. The Urban Community of Lille Métropole ( French: Lille Métropole Communauté Urbaine) is the intercommunal structure gathering the commune The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Lille (lil Rijsel is a city in northern France. It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest Metropolitan area in the country
The motto of the town is Pauvre mais fière (Poor but proud).
Twin towns
- Armentières is twinned with three cities:
Osterode am Harz, Germany
Stalybridge, United Kingdom [1]
Litoměřice, Czech Republic
History
In 1668, the town became French like the rest of French Flanders. Osterode am Harz often simply called Osterode, is a city in south-eastern Niedersachsen on the south-western edge of the Harz mountains Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Stalybridge is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Litoměřice (ˈlɪtomɲɛr̝ɪtsɛ Leitmeritz is a town at the junction of the rivers Elbe (Labe and Ohře (Eger in the north part of the Czech Republic The Czech Republic ( ˈt͡ʃɛskaː ˈrɛpuˌblɪka short form in Česko ˈt͡ʃɛskɔ also called Czechia, At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, Armentières acquired fame, being the“City of the Fabric”. The industrial weaving, spinning and brewing grew in Armentières, benefiting from the presence of water. This article describes textile weaving For other senses of this word see Weaving (disambiguation. Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic Fibers are twisted together to form Yarn (or thread Brewing is the production of Alcoholic beverage and Alcohol fuel through fermentation. Armentières particularly suffered at the time of the World Wars. However, the town did receive two Military Crosses (one for Great War and the second for the Second World War) and the Legion of Honor. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All 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 In Armentières and in the neighbourhoods, the military cemeteries are places of remembrance for the casualties of the World Wars. Mademoiselle from Armentières was a popular song amongst Allied soldiers in World War I. "Mademoiselle from Armentières" was a song that was sung during World War I. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All
External links
- Armentières official website (in French)
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