Pas-de-Calais (France)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
פה דה קאלה (צרפת)
Name (Latin)
Pas-de-Calais (France)
Other forms of name
nnaa Pas-de-Calais, France (Dept.)
Coordinates
1.85 1.85 50.95 50.95 (gooearth )
E0022000 E0022000 N0503000 N0503000 (geonames )
See Also From tracing place name
Artois (France)
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 138983708
Wikidata: Q12689
Library of congress: n 82099562
Sources of Information
  • BGN, 6/15/81(Département du Pas-de-Calais [Pas-de-Calais=brief]; ADM1; 50°30ʹN, 02°20ʹE)
  • GEOnet, May 17, 2001(Pas-de-Calais [short form], Département du--ADM2, 50°30ʹN 02°20ʹE, Nord-Pas-de-Calais)
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(adm2; 50°30ʹ00ʺN 002°20ʹ00ʺE)
  • Wikipedia, Sept. 5, 2014(Pas-de-Calais; department in northern France. Its name is the French equivalent of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. Inhabited since prehistoric times, the Pas-de-Calais region was populated in turn by the Celtic Belgae, the Romans, the Germanic Franks and the Alemanni. Itis one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Calaisis, formerly English, Boulonnais, Ponthieu and Artois, this last formerly part of the Spanish Netherlands)
  • BGN, 6/15/81(Département du Pas-de-Calais [Pas-de-Calais=brief]; ADM1; 50p0s30' N, 02p0s20' E)
  • Encyc. Brit., 15th ed.(Artois: anc. prov. of France, corresp. essent. to dept. of Pas-de-Calais)
  • GEOnet, May 17, 2001(Pas-de-Calais [short form], Département du--ADM2, 50p0s30'N 02p0s20'E, Nord-Pas-de-Calais)