Ors
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| Commune of Ors | |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Région | Nord-Pas-de-Calais |
| Département | Nord |
| Arrondissement | Cambrai |
| Canton | Le Cateau-Cambrésis |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de Haute Sambre-Bois l'Évêque |
| Mayor | Jacky Duminy (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 133 m–167 m (avg. 159 m) |
| Land area¹ | 17.76 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
712 |
| - Density (1999) | 40/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 59450/ 59360 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Ors is a commune of the Nord département, in northern France. It is located on the Sambre-Oise Canal, on the confines of a small wood called Bois l'Évêque.
It was a theater of an intense fight of the British troops for the control of the canal in November 1918. Wilfred Owen was killed there and is buried at the Communal Cemetery.
It is famous for its yearly sea jousting competition on the canal every August 15. Sea jousting has been played there since the Middle Ages.
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