Écoust-Saint-Mein
Encyclopedia
Écoust-Saint-Mein is a commune
in the Pas-de-Calais département in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France
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at the junction of the D956 and D5 roads.
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 département 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 10 miles (16.1 km) southeast of ArrasArras
Arras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The historic centre of the Artois region, its local speech is characterized as a Picard dialect...
at the junction of the D956 and D5 roads.
Population
Places of interest
- The church of St.Mein, dating from the sixteenth century.
- Traces of an old castle.
- World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
cemeteries.