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The canton of Flixecourt is an administrative division of the Somme department, in northern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation...

Flixecourt (French pronunciation: [fliksəkuʁ]; Picard: Flichcourt) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Flixecourt...

in the arrondissement of Amiens. The altitude varies from 6m at Flixecourt to 134m at Vignacourt for an average of 50m. The canton comprised 21 communes:...

Amiens-2 Amiens-3 Amiens-4 Amiens-5 Amiens-6 Amiens-7 Corbie Doullens Flixecourt Friville-Escarbotin Gamaches Ham Moreuil Péronne Poix-de-Picardie Roye...

northern France. It is the chef-lieu of one of the arrondissements of Somme. Located on the river Somme, it was the capital of Ponthieu. Abbeville is located...

especially during the Battle of the Somme, one of the largest allied offensives of the war. On 1 July 1916, the First Day of the Somme, the 29th Division...

pronunciation: [peʁɔn]) is a commune of the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. It is the former site of the Péronne monastery, founded...

kilometres (13 mi) southwest of Saint-Quentin, in the far southeast of the department, near the border with the department of the Aisne. Ham (Somme) station...

commune has been a part of the Canton of Ham. During the 2014 cantonal redistribution in France, the boundaries of the canton were expanded from 19 to...

France. Nouvion is situated 10 miles (16 km) north of Abbeville, between the Somme estuary and the forest of Crécy, on the D1001 (ex-N1 national) departmental...

7 kilometres (4 miles) north of Albert at the crossroads of the D73 and D151 and approximately 32 km (20 mi) northeast of Amiens. The original village...

- « Dictionnaire historique et archéologique de la Picardie », Tome II, Canton de Molliens-Vidame, page 337 (1912, reprint Editions Culture et Civilisation...

mouth of the canalised river Somme. It is 30 kilometres (19 miles) north west of Abbeville and to the west of the battlefields of the Somme. Most of the...

a Roman outpost, in about 54 BC. After being known by various forms of the name of the local river, the Ancre, it was renamed to Albert after it passed...

situated at the junction of the A1 autoroute and the N17 road, on the banks of the Avre, some 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Amiens. In 1634, religious...

rounds of the 2016–17 Coupe de France preliminary rounds. The competition was organised by the French Football Federation (FFF) and was made up of separate...

is part of the arrondissement of Amiens and the canton of Amiens-4. Gentelles is situated on the D168 road, some 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Amiens....

Battle of Pozières (23 July–7 August 1916), which was part of the Battle of the Somme. The village was subsequently rebuilt, and is now the site of several...

Ledieu – " Dictionnaire historique et archéologique de la Picardie ", volI, Canton de Conty, pages 352–353 (1909, reprint Éditions Culture et Civilisation...

of Saint Louis. Raoul II/III of Clermont, constable of France, and Guy I and Guy II (d. 1352) of Clermont, both marshals of France, were members of the...