Wervicq-Sud
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Location within Hauts-de-France region
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| Coordinates: 50°46′23″N 3°02′55″E / 50.7731°N 3.0486°ECoordinates: 50°46′23″N 3°02′55″E / 50.7731°N 3.0486°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Hauts-de-France | |
| Department | Nord | |
| Arrondissement | Lille | |
| Canton | Lambersart | |
| Intercommunality | MEL | |
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| • Mayor (2014-2020) | Jean-Gabriel Jacob | |
| Area1 | 5.09 km2 (1.97 sq mi) | |
| Population (2014)2 | 5,278 | |
| • Density | 1,000/km2 (2,700/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 59656 /59117 | |
| Elevation | 12–58 m (39–190 ft) (avg. 15 m or 49 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Wervicq-Sud (Dutch: Zuid-Wervik) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Wervicq-Sud is one of the oldest villages.
The town is separated from its Belgian sister town of Wervik by the Lys River.
Located 15 km north of Lille and 20 km south of Ypres.
The name appears in the form Viroviacum in the Antonine Itinerary and the Peutinger map in the 3rd century, so the settlement is old. It was here that the Roman road from Tournai to Cassel crossed the Lys (a tributary of the Scheldt). It had a fortified post, of which traces are still visible. It was mentioned by Sanderus in his "Flandria illustrata" in the sixteenth century.
For centuries, it belonged to the Counts of Flanders, and thence to the French kings. In 1527 by the Treaty of Madrid it passed under the suzerainty of the Spanish empire.
Wervicq-Sud during the sixteenth century was the main centre of tobacco production in Europe. It was dependent on Spain until Louis XIV's conquest in 1667. A part of the main agglomeration situated on the left side of the river was a Belgian province and on the left side of the river, reattached to the French province of Flanders, it later become a part of the Nord department under the name Wervicq-Sud in 1790.
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