Cambrai
Cambrai (French pronunciation: [kɑ̃bʁɛ] (
listen); Picard: Kimbré; Dutch: [Kamerijk] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help); historically in English Camerick and Camericke) is a commune in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river.
Cambrai is not very far from several European capitals: Brussels is 108 kilometres (67 mi), Paris is 160 kilometres (99 mi) and London is 280 kilometres (170 mi).[1]
Cambrai Media
An extract from the Peutinger table showing Camaraco (Cambrai) northeast of Sammarobriva (present-day Amiens)
Following the Treaty of Verdun, Cambrai found itself as a "median" border city of the kingdom of Lothair I with the western lands of Charles the Bald
The belfry of Cambrai, the old bell tower of the Church of Saint Martin, symbol of communal freedoms
Plan of Cambrai drawn in 1649, depicting the outline of the 11th century walls
Dufay (left) in conversation with Gilles Binchois
The "gunners' house" in Cambrai is an example of 17th-century Flemish architecture
Plan de Cambrai fait en 1710 chez Eugène Henry Friex rue de la Madelaine à Bruxelles
Canadian Soldiers at a Thanksgiving ceremony at Cambrai Cathedral WWI
The Boulevard Faidherbe, built in 1898 on the site of the ramparts
The Place d'Armes, on a market day before the First World War
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References
- ↑ "Calcul de l'orthodromie". for Paris, Lille, Douai, Valenciennes, Arras, Saint-Quentin. Distances approximate as the crow flies on Google Earth for Brussels and London. Archived from the original on 2019-05-19. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
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