Vitry-en-Artois

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Vitry-en-Artois is a commune of northern France. Population (1999): 4,646 inhabitants for the commune and 26,863 inhabitants for the canton. Its postal code is 62490.

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[edit] Administration

Vitry-en-Artois is the chief town of the canton of Vitry-en-Artois, part of the of northern arrondissement of Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais département.

[edit] History

Aerial photography has revealed an isolated circular ditch monument at Vitry.[1] The Merovingian villa of Vitry was an important Neustrian seat, preferred to Arras. At Vitry, even as the nobles of Neustria were raising Sigibert I in triumph on the shield, he was murdered by hirelings of his brother Chilperic's third wife, Fredegunda, November-December 575 [2] The infant Clotaire II was sent for security from the palace at Cambrai to Vitry to be raised in seclusion and security, according to Gregory of Tours.

[edit] Geography

  • Area: 18.78 km²
  • Altitude: 48 m

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ Gregory of Tours, IV.51 and V.1. He was buried first nearby at Lambres before being transferred to the Neustrian sedes regiae at Soissons.


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