Sallaumines (; pcd, Sallaumine or ''Sallau'') is a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Pas-de-Calais
Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...
France
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.
Administration
Sallaumines belongs to the Lens-Liévin intercommunality which consists of 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabitants.
History
The history of the area remains marked by the
Courrières mine disaster
The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst mining accident, caused the death of 1,099 miners in Northern France on 10 March 1906. This disaster was surpassed only by the Benxihu Colliery accident in China on 26 April 1942, which killed 1,5 ...
which caused 1099 deaths on 10 March 1906 on the territories of
Billy-Montigny
Billy-Montigny (; pcd, Bili-Montini) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.
Geography
An ex-coalmining industrial town situated just east of the centre of Lens at the junction of the N43 ...
Max Immelmann
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, the first German World War I flying ace, was killed by the British 25 Squadron Royal Flying Corps while flying over the area.
Population
Geography
Its nearby communes are Méricourt to the southeast,
Avion
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** Avion II and Avion III by Clément Ader
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to the southwest,
Lens
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to the west,
Loison-sous-Lens
Loison-sous-Lens (, literally ''Loison under Lens'') is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Geography
Loison-sous-Lens is a suburban town, one mile east of the centre of Lens, at the junction of t ...
to the north,
Harnes
Harnes () is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Geography
Harnes is an ex-coalmining and light industrial town situated some northeast of Lens, at the junction of the D162e and the D39. The Lens ...
to the northeast and
Montigny-en-Gohelle
Montigny-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
Geography
Montigny-en-Gohelle is former coalmining town, nowadays a light industrial and dormitory town, east of Lens, on the D46, D39e ...
to the east.
Transportation
The A21 motorway passes north of the town. Sallaumines has a train station (''Gare de Sallaumines'') on the line from
Lens
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to
Lille
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, and another one (''Gare de Pont-de-Sallaumines'') on the line from Lens to
Valenciennes
Valenciennes (, also , , ; nl, label=also Dutch, Valencijn; pcd, Valincyinnes or ; la, Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced a s ...
Torez
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, Ukraine
*
Trbovlje
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, Slovenia
*
Wodzisław Śląski
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