Écourt-Saint-Quentin
Encyclopedia
Écourt-Saint-Quentin is a commune
in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France
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Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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Geography
A farming village situated 19 miles (30.6 km) southeast of Arras at the junction of the D13 and D19 roads in a landscape of woods and lakes.Population
Places of interest
- The church of St.Quentin, dating from the twentieth century.
- Traces of a Merovingian cemetery and an old castle.
- Evidence of RomanAncient RomeAncient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
settlement. - An old flour mill.