Bessin
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- France
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- Calvados
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Bessin () is an area in Normandy, France, corresponding to the territory of the Bajocasses, a Gallic tribe from whom Bayeux, its main town, takes its name.
==History== The territory was annexed by the count of Rouen in 924.
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