The canton of Orchies is an administrative division of the Nord department, northern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Orchies.[1]
It consists of the following communes:[1]
Aix-en-Pévèle
Anhiers
Auby
Auchy-lez-Orchies
Beuvry-la-Forêt
Bouvignies
Coutiches
Faumont
Flines-lez-Raches
Landas
Nomain
Orchies
Râches
Raimbeaucourt
Roost-Warendin
Saméon
^ ab"Décret n° 2014-167 du 17 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département du Nord |". Legifrance. Retrieved 2017-05-15.
in March 2015. Its seat is in Orchies. It consists of the following communes: Aix-en-Pévèle Anhiers Auby Auchy-lez-Orchies Beuvry-la-Forêt Bouvignies Coutiches...
Scottish Borders area of the United Kingdom. The French Romantic composer Clément Broutin (1851–1889) was born in Orchies. Orchies railway station is served...
for the Canton of Orchies; married in Paris on 10 May 1859 to Emma Joséphine Ghislaine van den Hecke de Lambeke; buried in the church of Avelin with his...
area around Lille, Douai and Orchies), as well as half of the county of Hainaut (including Valenciennes). Later, in the War of the Reunions and the Nine...
It lies at the mouth of the river Aa 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Dunkirk. It was formed in the 12th century around the mouth of a canal built to connect...
within the department of Nord. Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubaix, Tourcoing is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest...
the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille. The city of Lille proper had a population of 236,234 in 2020...
of Flanders passed into the domains of the Dukes of Burgundy and thence in 1477 into Habsburg possessions. In 1667, Douai was taken by the troops of Louis...
the County of Artois, and the cities of Douai, Lille, Orchies and Arras agree to a separate peace under Spanish rule. May 21 – Battle of Mimaomote: In...
cobbled sector of Auchy-lez-Orchies was counter-attacked by the eventual winner Peter Sagan at 54 km from Roubaix. In May, he won the Tour of Yorkshire after...
in northern France. It is situated on both banks of the Sambre (here canalized), 36 km (22 mi) east of Valenciennes and about 9 km (5.6 mi) from the Belgian...
decline by the middle of the 1970s. Located to the northeast of Lille, adjacent to Tourcoing, Roubaix is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the third largest...
list of shipwrecks in November 1942 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during November 1942. For the foundering of the British...
flooded coastal area of the English Channel south of the Western Scheldt, when the area was held by the Counts of Flanders, vassals of the French Crown....
between Lille and Tournai. On 27 July 1214, the Battle of Bouvines was fought here between the forces of the French King Philip Augustus, who was resoundingly...
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