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Cambrai (US: / k æ m ˈ b r eɪ, k ɒ̃ ˈ-/, [3] [4] French: ⓘ; Picard: Kimbré; Dutch: Kamerijk), formerly Cambray [4] and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city 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 Memorial to the Missing. / 50.13667°N 3.01528°E / 50.13667; 3.01528. To the Glory of God and to the enduring memory of 7048 Officers and Men of the forces of the British Empire who fell at the Battle of Cambrai 20 Nov—3 Dec 1917 but who have no known grave. Their names are here recorded.
Cambrésis ( French: [kɑ̃bʁezi], Dutch: Kamerijk, German: Kammerich) is a former pagus, county and prince-bishopric of the medieval Holy Roman Empire that was annexed to the Kingdom of France in 1679. It is now regarded as one of the "natural regions" of France, and roughly equivalent to the Arrondissement of Cambrai in department Nord.
Cambrai is a small town located on the eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges, along the River Marne. Originally named Rhine Villa, it was one of many Australian towns renamed during World War I to remove any connection with German place names and named after the Battle of Cambrai. It was located on the Sedan railway line. It served as the ...
League of Cambrai. Northern Italy in 1494. The League of Cambrai was a military coalition against the Republic of Venice formed on 8 December 1508, by the main European powers ( Holy Roman Empire, Spain and France ), to maintain their hegemony over the Italian Peninsula .
The arrondissement of Cambrai is an arrondissement of France in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region. It has 116 communes . [2] Its population is 162,045 (2016), and its area is 901.6 km 2 (348.1 sq mi).
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai (English: Cambrai Museum of Fine Arts), also known as the Musée de Cambrai, is the main museum in the northern French city of Cambrai. It holds collections of archaeology, visual arts and local heritage. Of particular note among the holdings are works by Flemish and Dutch painters of the 17th century and ...
Communauté d'agglomération de Cambrai is the communauté d'agglomération, an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Cambrai. It is located in the Nord department, in the Hauts-de-France region, northern France. Created in 2017, its seat is in Cambrai. [1] Its area is 411.3 km 2. Its population was 81,335 in 2019, of which 32,176 in ...