Picard
Picard may refer to:
*Picardy, a region of France
*Picard language, a language of France
*Jean-Luc Picard, a fictional character in the ''Star Trek'' franchise
Places
* Picard, California, USA
* Picard, Quebec, Canada
* Picard (crater), a lunar ...
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (; pcd, Heuts-d'Franche; , also ''Upper France'') is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille. The ...
in northern
France
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. The municipality was formed in 1973 from the merger of Estrées-en-Chaussée and Mons-en-Chaussée.
It is one of many villages in the north of France bearing the name ''Estrées''. The etymology of the name is from ''strata'' (
cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words in different languages that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language. Because language change can have radical e ...
of English "street"), the word for the stone-layered
Roman road
Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman R ...
s in the area (some of which turned into modern highways). Hence ''Estreti'', ''village on the road'' which developed into ''Estrées''.
Geography
The commune is situated on the N29 road, west-northwest of Saint-Quentin.