Agglomeration community of Artois
The Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois (Artois Comm.) is a former administrative entity in the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France. Administrative center: Béthune.
Artois | |
|---|---|
Former communauté d'agglomération | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Pas-de-Calais |
| No. of communes | 58 |
| Established | December 28, 2001 |
| Disbanded | 2014 |
| Seat | Béthune |
| Area | |
| • Total | 387 km2 (149 sq mi) |
| Population (1999) | |
| • Total | 205,872 |
| • Density | 532/km2 (1,380/sq mi) |
It covered 58 communes, and had a population of approximately 200,000. It was the largest such communauté in Pas-de-Calais (but the most populated was the Communaupole of Lens-Liévin).
It is named after Artois, a former province of France. It was created in 2002. It merged with the Communauté de communes de Nœux et environs in 2014, and was renamed Communauté d'agglomération de Béthune Bruay Nœux et environs. This was merged into the new Communauté d'agglomération de Béthune-Bruay, Artois-Lys Romane in 2017.
Communes
The 58 communes:
- Annequin
- Annezin
- Auchel
- Auchy-les-Mines
- Bajus
- Barlin
- Béthune
- Beugin
- Beuvry
- Billy-Berclau
- Bruay-la-Buissière
- Calonne-Ricouart
- Camblain-Châtelain
- Cambrin
- Cauchy-à-la-Tour
- Caucourt
- Chocques
- Cuinchy
- Diéval
- Divion
- Douvrin
- Essars
- Estrée-Cauchy
- Festubert
- Fresnicourt-le-Dolmen
- Gauchin-Légal
- Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée
- Gosnay
- Haillicourt
- Haisnes-lès-la Bassée
- Hermin
- Hersin-Coupigny
- Hesdigneul-lès-Béthune
- Hinges
- Houchin
- Houdain
- La Comté
- La Couture
- Labeuvrière
- Lapugnoy
- Locon
- Lorgies
- Lozinghem
- Maisnil-lès-Ruitz
- Marles-les-Mines
- Neuve-Chapelle
- Noyelles-lès-Vermelles
- Oblinghem
- Ourton
- Rebreuve-Ranchicourt
- Richebourg
- Ruitz
- Sailly-Labourse
- Vendin-lès-Béthune
- Vermelles
- Verquin
- Vieille-Chapelle
- Violaines
gollark: *That* much? To be honest that seems kind of excessive.
gollark: Hmm, that seems like a more sensible way to do it than my check-every-10-minutes idea, actually.
gollark: Oh, that's okay then.
gollark: Running an individual process for all of them sounds really inefficient.
gollark: I would just have a process check the database for 4-hour-old ones every 10 minutes or something.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.