the population of the commune of Valenciennes was 41,278, and that of the metropolitan area was 399,677. Valenciennes is first mentioned in 693 in a legal...
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Valenciennes Football Club (French pronunciation: [valɑ̃sjɛn] ; commonly known as Valenciennes, VA or VAFC) is a French professional football club based...
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Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794 – 13 April 1865) was a French zoologist. Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. His study...
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Herman de Valenciennes, 12th-century French poet, was born at Valenciennes. His father and mother, Robert and Herembourg, belonged to Hainaut, and gave...
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be count of the Valenciennes area. Vanderkindere speculated in 1902 (Vol. 2 p. 72) that Emperor Otto I created the March of Valenciennes in the late 940s/early...
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Valenciennes lace is a type of bobbin lace which originated in Valenciennes, in the Nord département of France, and flourished from about 1705 to 1780...
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Siege of Valenciennes may refer to: Siege of Valenciennes (1567), a siege during the Eighty Years' War Siege of Valenciennes (1656), a siege during the...
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The organ of Valenciennes, named after the French naturalist Achille Valenciennes, is one of two secondary sexual organs of the female of the genus Nautilus...
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Look up Valenciennes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Valenciennes can mean: Valenciennes, a town and commune on the Scheldt river in the Nord département...
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Columbia, Canada. The Valenciennes was originally known as the South Fork Bush River. Headwaters form on the south slope of Valenciennes Mountain. Approximately...
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