Artois
Sign in to saveArtois ( , ; ; Picard: Artoé; English adjective: Artesian) is a region of northern France. Its territory covers an area of about 4,000 km2 and it has a population of about one million. Its principal cities include Arras (Dutch: Atrecht), Saint-Omer, Lens, and Béthune. It is the eponym for the term Artesian.
Key facts
- Former subdivision.native_name
- Gouvernment d'Artois
- Former subdivision.common_name
- Artois
- Former subdivision.capital
- Arras
- Former subdivision.today
- France
- Former subdivision.government_type
- Province
- Former subdivision.era
- Early Modern
- Former subdivision.year_start
- 1764
- Former subdivision.year_end
- 1790
- Former subdivision.event_start
- County created
- Former subdivision.p1
- French Flanders
- Former subdivision.s1
- Pas-de-Calais
- Former subdivision.leader1
- Louis XV
- Former subdivision.year_leader1
- 1764–1774
- Former subdivision.title_leader
- King of France
- Former subdivision.leader2
- Louis XVI
- Former subdivision.year_leader2
- 1774–1790
- Former subdivision.deputy1
- François Gaston de Lévis
- Former subdivision.year_deputy1
- 1764–1787
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Artois ( , ; ; Picard: Artoé; English adjective: Artesian) is a region of northern France. Its territory covers an area of about 4,000 km2 and it has a population of about one million. Its principal cities include Arras (Dutch: Atrecht), Saint-Omer, Lens, and Béthune. It is the eponym for the term Artesian.
==Location== Artois occupies the interior of the Pas-de-Calais département, the western part of which constitutes the former Boulonnais. Artois roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Arras, Béthune, Saint Omer, and Lens, and the eastern part of the arrondissement of Montreuil. It occupies the western end of the coalfield which stretches eastward through the neighbouring Nord département and across central Belgium.