Somme

Somme

Coat of arms of the Somme department
Location

Administration
Department number:	80
Region:	Picardie
Prefecture:	Amiens
Subprefectures:	Abbeville Montdidier Péronne
Arrondissements:	4
Cantons:	46
Communes:	783
President of the General Council:	Daniel Dubois
Statistics
Population	Ranked 40th
-1999	555,551
Population density:	90/km²
Land area¹:	6170 km²

¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². The term administration, as used in the context of Government, differs according to Jurisdiction. 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 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'' Amiens (amjɛ̃ is a city and commune in northern France, 120 km north of Paris. Subprefectures (sous-préfectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. Abbeville ( Abbegem in Flemish is a city in Picardie in northern France. Montdidier is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France. Péronne is a commune of the Somme département, in France. It is close to where the Battles of the Somme took place The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The 4 arrondissements of the Somme department are Arrondissement of Abbeville, ( subprefecture: Abbeville) The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The following is a list of the 46 cantons of the Somme department, in France, sorted by arrondissement: Arrondissement of The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. The following is a list of the 782 communes of the Somme département, in France. In France, the President of the General Council (French Président du conseil général) is the locally-elected head of the General Council, the assembly As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. To help compare Orders of magnitude of different geographical regions we list here areas between 1000 km2 and 10000 km2 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

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 This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. It is part of the Picardie region of France. 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,

The Somme was the site of many great battles in World War I and the department is home to a number of military cemeteries and to several major monuments commemorating the many soldiers from various countries who died on its battlefields. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried.

1 Battles of the Somme
2 See also
3 Other
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Battles of the Somme

Main article: Battle of the Somme

In 1916 the Somme was the location of one of the largest battles of World War I, with over a million casualties (the British Army had suffered 420,000 casualties including nearly 60,000 on the first day alone. The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, fought from July to November 1916 was among the largest battles of the First World War World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The French lost 200,000 men and the Germans nearly 500,000). It is one of the bloodiest battles in human history. The Allied forces attempted to break through the German lines along a 25-mile (40 km) front north and south of the River Somme in northern France. The Entente Powers (from Triple Entente) were the countries at war with the Central Powers during World War I. The German Empire is the name commonly used in English to describe Germany from 1871 to 1918 when it was a semi- Constitutional monarchy: beginning with the Unification The French Third Republic (in French, La Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe The Allies had originally intended the Somme to be the site of one of several simultaneous major offensives by Allied powers against the Central Powers in 1916. The Central Powers ( German: "Mittelmächte" Hungarian: "Központi hatalmak" Turkish: "İttifak However, before these offensives could begin, the Germans attacked first, engaging the Allies at the Battle of Verdun. The Battle of Verdun was one of the most critical battles in World War I on the Western Front, fought between the German and French As this battle dragged on, the purpose of the Somme campaign (which was still in the planning stage) shifted from striking a decisive blow against Germany to drawing German forces away from Verdun and relieving the Allied forces there. By its end the losses on the Somme had exceeded those at Verdun.

While Verdun would bite deep in the national consciousness of France for generations, the Somme would have the same effect on generations of Britons. The battle is best remembered for its first day, 1 July 1916, on which the British suffered 57,420 casualties, including 19,240 dead — the second bloodiest day in the history of the British Army to this day (after Towton). "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. The Battle of Towton in the Wars of the Roses was the largest and bloodiest ever fought on British soil with casualties believed to have been about 28000 (perhaps As terrible as the battle was for the British Empire troops who suffered there, it naturally affected the other nationalities as well. One German officer famously described it as "the muddy grave of the German field army. " By the end of the battle, the British had learned many lessons in modern warfare while the Germans had suffered irreplaceable losses. British historian Sir James Edmonds stated, "It is not too much to claim that the foundations of the final victory on the Western Front were laid by the Somme offensive of 1916. James Edmonds may refer to James Barker Edmonds (1832-1900 American lawyer and politician James Edward Edmonds (1861–1956 British "

For the first time the home front in Britain was exposed to the horrors of modern war with the release of the propaganda film The Battle of the Somme, which used actual footage from the first days of the battle. A propaganda film is a Film, either a documentary -style production or a fictional screenplay that is produced to convince the viewer of a certain political point The Battle of the Somme ( 1916) was a documentary and Propaganda Film made by British official Cinematographers

The Somme experienced war twice more in the First and Second Battles of the Somme of 1918. The main Battle of the Somme was fought in the summer and autumn of July 1916 During the First World War, the Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought on the Western Front from the end of the summer in the basin of

Other

Somme is also the name of an instrumental post-rock group from Chicago. Amiens (amjɛ̃ is a city and commune in northern France, 120 km north of Paris. Cambrai (Dutch Kamerijk; old spelling Cambray) is a French town and commune, in the Nord département, The following is a list of the 46 cantons of the Somme department, in France, sorted by arrondissement: Arrondissement of The following is a list of the 782 communes of the Somme département, in France. The 4 arrondissements of the Somme department are Arrondissement of Abbeville, ( subprefecture: Abbeville) Their debut release was a five track EP entitled Weight.

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-proper noun

One of the départements of Picardie, France

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