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Somme or The Somme may refer to: Places
*Somme (department), a department of France
*Somme, Queensland, Australia
*Canal de la Somme, a canal in France
*Somme (river), a river in France
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Somme'' (book), a ...
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
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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 ...
Rue is situated some north of Abbeville, on the junction of the D938, D4 and D85 roads.
Rue station
Rue is a railway station serving the town Rue, Somme department, northern France. The station is served by regional trains to Boulogne and Amiens
Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located ...
has rail connections to Amiens, Calais and Paris.
Population
Toponymy
The place is first mentioned as ''Rua'' in 1042 (diplôme ''Henrici Regis Gall. Christ'', then ''Rugua'' in 1090 - 1110, ''Rue'' in 1184.
Medieval place name meaning "street" in French (French word ''rue'' is ultimately from Latin ''ruga'').''Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieu en France'',
Albert Dauzat
Albert Dauzat (; 4 July 1877 – 31 October 1955) was a French linguist specializing in toponymy and onomastics.
Dauzat, a student of Jules Gilliéron, was a director of studies at the École des hautes études.
Works
* ''L'argot des poilus; di ...
and
Charles Rostaing
Charles Rostaing (9 October 1904 – 24 April 1999) was a French linguist who specialised in toponymy.Obituar ...
, 1979, Paris, , p. 579a.
Places of interest
* The chapel of the Holy Spirit (1440–1514) is one of the finest examples of flamboyant gothic in Picardie.
* The bell tower, which in 2005 was inscribed on the UNESCOWorld Heritage List along with other belfries of Belgium and France because of their architecture and testimony to the rise of municipal power in the region.