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Encyclopedia > Somme
This article is about the French department. For a definition of the word "somme", see the Wiktionary entry somme.
Somme
Coat of arms of the Somme department
Location
Administration
Department number: 80
Region: Picardie
Prefecture: Amiens
Subprefectures: Abbeville
Montdidier
Péronne
Arrondissements: 4
Cantons: 46
Communes: 783
President of the General Council: Daniel Dubois
Statistics
Population Ranked 40th
 -1999 555,551
Population density: 90/km²
Land area¹: 6170 km²
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km².
France

Somme is a French department, named after the Somme River, located in the north of France. It is part of the region of Picardie. Image File history File links Blason80. ... Image File history File links Credit(s): fr:Utilisateur:Rinaldum Source: french wikipedia File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The term Administration, as used in the context of government, differs according to jurisdiction. ... Departments (French: IPA: ) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... (Region flag) (Region logo) Location Administration Capital Amiens Regional President Claude Gewerc (PS) (since 2004) Departments Aisne Oise Somme Arrondissements 13 Cantons 129 Communes 2,292 Statistics Land area1 19,399 km² Population (Ranked 12th)  - January 1, 2006 est. ... In France, a préfecture is the administrative town of a département. ... Amiens is a city and commune in the north of France, 120 km north of Paris. ... A subprefecture in Verdun, France Subprefectures (French: sous-préfectures) are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. ... Collégiale St Vulfran Beffroi Abbeville is a city in the Picardie région, in the north of France. ... Montdidier is a commune of the Somme département, in France. ... Péronne is a commune of the Somme département, in France. ... The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. ... The 4 arrondissements of the Somme department are: Arrondissement of Abbeville, (subprefecture: Abbeville) with 12 cantons and 169 communes. ... The cantons of France are administrative divisions subdividingarrondissements and départementscommunes Cantons number 3,879 among the 329 arondissements and 96 departments of France. ... The following is a list of the 46 cantons of the Somme department, in France, sorted by arrondissement: // Abbeville-Nord Abbeville-Sud Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher Ault Crécy-en-Ponthieu Friville-Escarbotin Gamaches Hallencourt Moyenneville Nouvion Rue Saint-Valery-sur-Somme Acheux-en-Amiénois Amiens 1st (Ouest) canton... The commune is an administrative division of France. ... The following is a list of the 783 communes of the Somme département, in France. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Categories: | ... To help compare orders of magnitude of different geographical regions, we list here areas between 1,000 km² and 10,000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... For other meanings, see Estuary (disambiguation) Río de la Plata estuary An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Departments (French: IPA: ) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ... Somme river The Somme River (French Rivière Somme) is a river in Picardy, northern France. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... (Region flag) (Region logo) Location Administration Capital Amiens Regional President Claude Gewerc (PS) (since 2004) Departments Aisne Oise Somme Arrondissements 13 Cantons 129 Communes 2,292 Statistics Land area1 19,399 km² Population (Ranked 12th)  - January 1, 2006 est. ...


Many battles of World War I took place at Somme, and several major monuments to soldiers from various countries exist in the department. It also holds various graveyards for the many soldiers killed on the battlefield. “The Great War ” redirects here. ...


Battles of the Somme

Main article: Battle of the Somme

In 1916 Somme was the location of one of the largest battles of World War I, with more than one million casualties. It is also one of the bloodiest battles in human history. The Allied forces attempted to break through the German lines along a 25-mile (40 km) front north and south of the River Somme in northern France. One purpose of the battle was to draw German forces away from the Battle of Verdun; however, by its end the losses on the Somme had exceeded those at Verdun. For other battles known as Battle of the Somme, see Battle of the Somme (disambiguation). ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... The following is a list of the most lethal battles in world history. ... European military alliances in 1915. ... Somme river The Somme River (French Rivière Somme) is a river in Picardy, northern France. ... Combatants  France  German Empire Commanders Philippe Pétain Robert Nivelle Erich von Falkenhayn Strength About 30,000 on 21 February 1916 About 150,000 on 21 February 1916 Casualties 378,000; of whom 163,000 died. ...


While Verdun would bite deep in the national consciousness of France for generations, the Somme would have the same effect on generations of Britons. The battle is best remembered for its first day, 1 July 1916, on which the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead — the second bloodiest day in the history of the British Army to this day (after Towton). As terrible as the battle was for the British Empire and Canadian troops who suffered there, it naturally affected the other nationalities as well. One German officer famously described it as "the muddy grave of the German field army." By the end of the battle, the British had learned many lessons in modern warfare while the Germans had suffered irreplaceable losses. British historian Sir James Edmonds stated, "It is not too much to claim that the foundations of the final victory on the Western Front were laid by the Somme offensive of 1916." is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Brigadier General James Edward Edmonds (1861–1956) was a British First World War officer of the Royal Engineers who in the role of British official historian was responsible for the post-war compilation of the 28-volume History of the Great War. ...


For the first time the home front in Britain was exposed to the horrors of modern war with the release of the propaganda film The Battle of the Somme, which used actual footage from the first days of the battle. The Why We Fight Series depicts the Nazi propaganda machine. ... A staged advance filmed before the battle. ...


The Somme experienced war twice more in the First and Second Battles of the Somme of 1918. The first Somme battle of 1918 is also known as the Battle of Saint-Quentin or the Second Battle of the Somme[1]. It lasted from March 21–April 5 1918. ... During the First World War, the Second Battle of the Somme of 1918 was fought on the Western Front from the end of the summer, in the basin of the Somme River. ...


See also

  • Somme River
  • Amiens
  • Cambrai
  • Cantons of the Somme department
  • Communes of the Somme department
  • Arrondissements of the Somme department

Somme is also the name of an instrumental post-rock group from Chicago. Their debut release was a five track EP entitled Weight. Somme river The Somme River (French Rivière Somme) is a river in Picardy, northern France. ... Amiens is a city and commune in the north of France, 120 km north of Paris. ... Cambrai (Dutch: Kamerijk) is a French city and commune, in the Nord département, of which it is a sous_préfecture. ... The following is a list of the 46 cantons of the Somme department, in France, sorted by arrondissement: // Abbeville-Nord Abbeville-Sud Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher Ault Crécy-en-Ponthieu Friville-Escarbotin Gamaches Hallencourt Moyenneville Nouvion Rue Saint-Valery-sur-Somme Acheux-en-Amiénois Amiens 1st (Ouest) canton... The following is a list of the 783 communes of the Somme département, in France. ... The 4 arrondissements of the Somme department are: Arrondissement of Abbeville, (subprefecture: Abbeville) with 12 cantons and 169 communes. ...


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ireland.com / Focus / The Somme (1099 words)
The optimism of the 19th century, the belief that progress was inevitable and that humanity was on a straight road to civilisation, was blown apart in those explosions, sunk in the blood-soaked mud of the Somme, caught on the barbed wire of massive, pitiless and futile slaughter.
In order to use the memory of the Somme to bolster obedience to authority, it was necessary to forget that the courage and self-sacrifice of the troops was betrayed by the folly of their leaders.
When the descendants of Thomas Kettle, a prominent nationalist intellectual and MP killed on the Somme, proposed the erection of a small monument to his memory in St Stephen's Green in Dublin, the project was delayed for 20 years because the Commissioners for Public Works would not countenance three simple words: "Killed in France".
Battle of the Somme (1916) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (6616 words)
The axis of the advance was centred on the Roman road that ran from Albert in the west to Bapaume 12 miles (19 km) to the northeast.
In one significant respect, the Battle of the Somme was a major strategic success for the British as on 12 July, in response to the Somme fighting and the situation in the east, Falkenhayn called off the German offensive at Verdun.
The original Allied estimate of casualties on the Somme, made at the Chantilly conference on 15 November, was 485,000 British and French casualties versus 630,000 German.
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