Liévin
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Liévin is a small town located in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. Its main significance is as a local community whose residents are known by the French name Liévinois.
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Place details
- Locality
- Liévin
- Region
- Hauts-de-France
- Country
- France
- Population
- 34,370
- Timezone
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16 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Administration
- History
- Prehistory and Middle Ages
- Industrial Revolution
- World War I
- World War II
- End of coal mining
- Liévin without coal and beginning of the 21st century
- Lefebvre family and sinking of the Titanic
- Mayors of Liévin since the French Revolution
- Population
- Notable people
- International relations
- References
- External links
Liévin (; ; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The inhabitants are called Liévinois in French.
==Overview== The town of Liévin is an old mining area of Pas-de-Calais. Near Lens, this town is of modest size but has several nursery schools, schools, colleges, a university, a swimming pool, a city library, a cultural and social center (CCS), a hospital, a covered stadium, several gardens and parks, two movie theaters, two cemeteries, a Catholic church, a shopping center, a National Police station, a fire station, a complete intercommunity transportation system (Tadao regional newspapers, the main ones being ''L'Avenir de l'Artois [the Future of Artois, La Voix du Nord (Voice of the North) and Nord Éclair (Northern Flash''), etc.