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Sallaumines (French pronunciation: [salomin]; Picard: Sallaumine or Sallau) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France.




Administration


Sallaumines belongs to the Lens-Liévin intercommunality which consists of 36 communes, with a total population of 250,000 inhabitants.




History


The history of the area remains marked by the Courrières mine disaster which caused 1099 deaths on 10 March 1906 on the territories of Billy-Montigny, Méricourt and Sallaumines.
On 18 June 1916 Max Immelmann, the first German World War I flying ace, was killed by the British 25 Squadron Royal Flying Corps while flying over the area.




Population






Geography


Its nearby communes are Méricourt to the southeast, Avion to the southwest, Lens to the west, Loison-sous-Lens to the north, Harnes to the northeast and Montigny-en-Gohelle to the east.




Transportation


The A21 motorway passes north of the town. Sallaumines has a train station (Gare de Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Lille, and another one (Gare de Pont-de-Sallaumines) on the line from Lens to Valenciennes.




Twin towns - sister cities


Sallaumines is twinned with:

Lugau, Germany
Torez, Ukraine
Trbovlje, Slovenia
Wodzisław Śląski, Poland




See also


Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department




References






External links



Communauté d'Agglomération de Lens-Liévin (in French)

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Komune di departemen Pas-de-Calais
• Daftar stasiun SNCF di Nord-Pas de Calais
• Flers, Pas-de-Calais
• Croisilles, Pas-de-Calais
• Hinges, Pas-de-Calais
• Fleury, Pas-de-Calais
• Sainte-Austreberthe, Pas-de-Calais
• Bours, Pas-de-Calais
• Eps, Pas-de-Calais
• Héricourt, Pas-de-Calais
• Sallaumines
• Trbovlje
• Battle of Hill 70
• Communauté d'agglomération de Lens – Liévin
• Courrières mine disaster
• Billy-Montigny
• Arrondissement of Lens
• Lugau
• Boulogne-sur-Mer
• Croisilles, Pas-de-Calais