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Loos-en-Gohelle

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Loos-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. [1]

27 relations: A21 autoroute, Arrondissement of Lens, Battle of Loos, Bénifontaine, Coal, Coal mining, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Communauté d'agglomération de Lens – Liévin, Communes of France, Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department, Compagnie des mines de Béthune, Departments of France, France, Grenay, Pas-de-Calais, Hauts-de-France, Hulluch, Jean-François Caron, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Loos, Nord, Middle Ages, Pas-de-Calais, Poland, Spoil tip, The Greens (France), Vedast, World War I, World War II.

A21 autoroute

The A21 autoroute is a toll free highway in north western France it is also known as the Rocade Minière.

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Arrondissement of Lens

The arrondissement of Lens is an arrondissement of northern France in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region.

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Battle of Loos

The Battle of Loos was a battle that took place from 1915 in France on the Western Front, during the First World War.

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Bénifontaine

Bénifontaine is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.

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Communauté d'agglomération de Lens – Liévin

The Communauté d'agglomération de Lens – Liévin is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the cities of Lens and Liévin.

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Communes of France

The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department

The following is a list of the 891 communes of the Pas-de-Calais department of France.

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Compagnie des mines de Béthune

The Compagnie des mines de Béthune, sometimes called the sometimes called the Compagnie de Grenay after the name of the concession, was a French coal mining company in the Pas-de-Calais that was established in 1851 and nationalized in 1946.

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government below the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the commune.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Grenay, Pas-de-Calais

Grenay is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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Hauts-de-France

Hauts-de-France (translates to "Upper France" in English; Heuts-d'Franche) is a region of France created by the territorial reform of French Regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy.

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Hulluch

Hulluch is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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Jean-François Caron

Jean-François Caron (born May 21, 1957 in Loos-en-Gohelle, Pas-de-Calais) is a French politician and a member of Europe Écologie–The Greens.

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Lens, Pas-de-Calais

Lens (Linse) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

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Loos, Nord

Loos (French pronunciation) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.

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Pas-de-Calais

Pas-de-Calais is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders ('pas' meaning passage).

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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Spoil tip

A spoil tip (also called a spoil bank, boney pile, gob pile, bing, batch, boney dump or pit heap) is a pile built of accumulated spoil – the overburden or other waste rock removed during coal and ore mining.

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The Greens (France)

The Greens (Les Verts,; VEC or LV) was a green-ecologist political party in France.

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Vedast

Vedast or Vedastus, also known as Saint Vaast (in Flemish, Norman and Picard) or Saint Waast (also in Picard and Walloon), Saint Gaston in French,and Foster in English.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loos-en-Gohelle

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