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    Pont-à-Marcq (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃.t‿a maʁk]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is the seat of the Communauté de communes...
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    Lille-Nord-Est Lille-Ouest Lille-Sud Lille-Sud-Est Lille-Sud-Ouest Lomme Marcq-en-Barœul Pont-à-Marcq Quesnoy-sur-Deûle Roubaix-Centre Roubaix-Est Roubaix-Nord Roubaix-Ouest...
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    Battle of Tourcoing (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    soldiers were posted at Pont-à-Marcq. Bonnaud's men bivouacked at Sainghin-en-Mélantois with detachments at Lannoy and Pont-à-Tressin. Souham's and Moreau's...
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    Lille. It flows northwards through the towns of Pont-à-Marcq, Tressin, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Croix and Marcq-en-Barœul, finally flowing into the Deûle in Marquette-lez-Lille...
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  • the merger of several former communautés de communes. Its seat is in Pont-à-Marcq. Its area is 310.3 km2, and its population was 95,816 in 2018. The Communauté...
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    Flemish cuisine; perhaps one of the best known dishes is coq à la bière – chicken in a creamy beer sauce. In June 1792 the French astronomers Jean Baptiste...
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    Marcq-en-Barœul (French pronunciation: [maʁkɑ̃ baʁœl]; Picard: Marke-in-Bareul; older Dutch: Marke) is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France...
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    Legion club, a village hall, two village greens, a children's play park and a football field. Kingham is twinned with the village of Pont-à-Marcq near Lille...
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    Lille (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    catégorie socioprofessionnelle et la position vis à vis de l'emploi par commune et département (1968 à 1999)" (ZIP) (in French). INSEE. 2020. Retrieved...
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    Douai (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord département in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the...
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