Estrées-Saint-Denis () is a commune in the

Oise Oise ( ; ; pcd, Oése) is a department in the north of France. It is named after the river Oise. Inhabitants of the department are called ''Oisiens'' () or ''Isariens'', after the Latin name for the river, Isara. It had a population of 829,419 ...

department in northern

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. Estrées-Saint-Denis station has rail connections to Amiens and Compiègne. 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"''.

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