Abbeville
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Abbeville is a town located in the Somme department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It serves as a commune, which is the smallest administrative division in the French local government system.
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Place details
- Locality
- Abbeville
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Population
- 26,461
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66 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Location
- Quarters, hamlets and localities
- Transport
- Climate
- Demography
- Demographic evolution
- Age structure
- Economy
- Culture, festivals, sport and leisure
- Culture
- Festivals
- Floral town
- Sport
- Games
- In literature
- Toponymy
- Heraldry
- Sobriquet
- Politics and administration
- Political trends and results
- Municipal administration
- Intercommunality
- History
- Prehistory
- Palaeolithic
- Antiquity
- Middle Ages
- Early Middle Ages
- High Middle Ages
- Late Middle Ages
- Early modern era
- 16th century
- 17th century
- 18th century
- Contemporary era
- French Revolution
- Consulate and Empire
- July monarchy, Second Republic and Second Empire
- End of 19th century and Belle Epoque
- World War I and the conferences of Abbeville
- Interwar period
- World War II
- Floods of 2001
- Military life
- Places and monuments
- Collegiate Church of Saint-Vulfran
- Theatre
- Belfry
- Boucher de Perthes Museum
- Château de Bagatelle
- Manufacture des Rames
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- Other churches
- Archaeological sites
- La Barre Monument
- Other memorials
- Parks and public gardens
- Other monuments
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Notable people
- See also
- Bibliography
- Notes
- References
- External links
Abbeville (; ; ) is a commune in the Somme department and in Hauts-de-France region in northern France.
It is the of one of the arrondissements of Somme. Located on the river Somme, it was the capital of Ponthieu.