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Communauté De Communes De La Région D'Audruicq
The Communauté de communes de la Région d'Audruicq is a '' communauté de communes'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the town of Audruicq. It is located in the Pas-de-Calais department, in the Hauts-de-France region, northern France. It was created on 1 January 1994. Its seat is in Audruicq.CC de la Région d'Audruicq (N° SIREN : 246200844) BANATIC, accessed 17 October 2024. Its area is 220.0 km2. Its population was 27,630 in 2018, of which 5,422 in Audruicq proper.Comparateur de territoire INSEE, accessed 7 April 2022. Compositi ...
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Audruicq
Audruicq (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in northern France. Geography A town located 11 miles (18 km) southeast of Calais, at the junction of the D224 with the D309 road. History Baldwin II, Count of Flanders named it a city in 1175, rebuilding the castle and converting the surrounding marshland to tillable soil. After continuously changing authority between the 13th century and the 17th century, Audruicq finally became a French town after the Peace of Nijmegen in 1678. Population Sights * The eighteenth-century church of St. Martin. * The eighteenth-century château. Personalities * Gilbert Brazy: Born at Audruicq on 15 February 1902. A pilot, he disappeared, flying a "Latham47" in the Arctic in 1928 with Roald Amundsen.1 International relations Audruicq is twinned with: Hawkhurst in Kent, England, since 1998. See also *Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References External links Audruicq, a str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |