Aubigny-aux-Kaisnes () is a

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in the

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Aisne Aisne ( , ; ; pcd, Ainne) is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne. In 2019, it had a population of 531,345.Hauts-de-France Hauts-de-France (; pcd, Heuts-d'Franche; , also ''Upper France'') is the northernmost Regions of France, region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its Prefectu ...

region of northern

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Geography

Aubigny-aux-Kaisnes is located some 15 km southwest of Saint-Quentin and 5 km northeast of

Ham Ham is pork from a leg cut of pork, cut that has been food preservation, preserved by wet or dry Curing (food preservation), curing, with or without smoking (cooking), smoking."Bacon: Bacon and Ham Curing" in ''Chambers's Encyclopædia''. Lo ...

. It can be accessed by road D930 which runs northeast from Ham and inside the northwestern border of the commune towards Saint-Quentin. The D34 road also comes from

Foreste Foreste () is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Population See also *Communes of the Aisne department The following is a list of the 799 communes in the French department of Aisne. The commun ...

in the northwest through the village and continuing to Bray-Saint-Christophe in the east. There is also a country road heading west from the village to Villers-Saint-Christophe. The commune consists entirely of farmland with no other villages or hamlets.Google Maps
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Neighbouring communes and villages

Administration

List of Successive Mayors of Aubigny-aux-KaisnesList of Mayors of France

Population

Notable people linked to the commune

Augustin Ringeval Augustin Ringeval was a French cyclist of the early 1900s. He was born in Aubigny-aux-Kaisnes in 1882. Among other competitions, he participated in his first Tour de France in 1905. He went on to participate in many other Tours until 1913, He ...

, racing cyclist who participated in the

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from 1905 to 1913. Born on 13 April 1882 in Aubigny-aux-Kaisnes, he died aged 85 in Amélie-les-Bains on 5 July 1967

References

External links

Aubigny-aux-Kaisnes on the old IGN website

Aubigny-aux-Kaisnes on Géoportail
National Geographic Institute (IGN) website
''Aubigny aux Quesnes'' on the 1750 Cassini Map
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