Normandy

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Normandy is a historic region in northern France, famous for its medieval duchy, its role in the Norman Conquest of England, and as the site of the D-Day landings in World War II.


Statements (67)
Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural region
historical region
administrativeRegion Normandy (administrative region)
administrativeRegionCreated 2016
annexationDate 1204
borders Brittany
English Channel
Hauts-de-France
Pays de la Loire
Île-de-France
capital Rouen
climate oceanic climate
contains Bayeux
Caen
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Le Havre
Rouen
containsDepartment Calvados
Eure
Manche
Orne
Seine-Maritime
country France
countryInvadingOnDDay Canada
Free France
Poland
United Kingdom
United States
dateOfEvent 1066
1944
duchyEstablished 10th century
duchyFoundedBy Rollo
hasHeritageSite Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay
hasPart Lower Normandy
Upper Normandy
historicalCapital Rouen
historicalEvent Battle of Normandy
D-Day landings
Norman Conquest of England
historicalLanguage Norman language
Old Norman
knownFor Camembert cheese
D-Day landings
Mont-Saint-Michel
Norman Conquest of England
bocage landscape
cider production
medieval Duchy of Normandy
landingBeaches Gold Beach
Juno Beach
Omaha Beach
Sword Beach
Utah Beach
language French
locatedIn northern France
locatedOn English Channel
mergedFrom Lower Normandy
Upper Normandy
notableRuler William the Conqueror
partOf Fifth Republic of France
France
rulerTitle Duke of Normandy
UNESCOWorldHeritageSite Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay
wasAnnexedBy Kingdom of France
wasDuchy Duchy of Normandy
WWIIEvent Operation Neptune
Operation Overlord

Referenced by (136)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Arromanches-les-Bains
Broglie, Eure, France
Chausey
Courseulles-sur-Mer
Giverny garden
Gold
Gold Beach
Honfleur
Juno Beach
Le Havre
Normandy landings memorial
Omaha Beach
Pegasus Bridge
Sainte-Mère-Église
Sword Beach
Utah Beach
Utah Beach Museum
locatedIn
Anglo-French wars of the 12th and 13th centuries
Battle for Caen
Battle of the Falaise Pocket
Dieppe Raid
Liberation of France
Operation Cobra ("Normandy, France")
Operation Epsom ("Normandy, France")
Operation Goodwood
Operation Goodwood
Operation Neptune
Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord
Operation Totalize
Retreat from Normandy
The Anarchy
relief of Rouen (1592)
location
Charlotte Corday ("Normandy, France")
Edward IV of England
Nicolas Poussin
Remigius de Fécamp
William II of England
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
birthPlace
Broglie, Eure, France
Calvados department
Courseulles-sur-Mer
Dieppe
Port of Le Havre
Vierville-sur-Mer
region
Anselm of Canterbury ("Duchy of Normandy")
Roger I of Sicily
Roger de Montgomery ("Duchy of Normandy")
Rollo
William the Conqueror ("Duchy of Normandy")
countryOfCitizenship
Carentan-les-Marais
D-Day Museum of Arromanches
Ouistreham
Rouen Cathedral
locatedInRegion
Charles-François Lebrun
Georges Sorel
Roger I of Sicily
William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel
placeOfBirth
12th Army Group
716th Infantry Division
Allied Naval Expeditionary Force ("Normandy coast")
areaOfOperations
Brittany
Centre-Val de Loire
Île-de-France
borders
Baie de Seine ("Normandy coast")
Maine (historical province)
borderedBy
Eure
Sarthe
flowsThroughRegion
Duke of Normandy ("Duchy of Normandy")
Duke of Normandy
hasHistoricalConnection
Normandy ("Upper Normandy")
Normandy ("Lower Normandy")
hasPart
Caen Canal ("Normandy coast")
Colleville-sur-Mer ("Normandy coast")
locatedOn
Haystacks series
Rouen Cathedral series
locationDepicted
John ("Duchy of Normandy")
King John of England
lostTerritory
Normandy ("Upper Normandy")
Normandy ("Lower Normandy")
mergedFrom
Remigius de Fécamp
Wace
regionOfActivity
Normans
Normans
settledIn
Philip II of France
Philip II of France
territorialGain
Patton's Third Army ("Normandy, France")
activatedAt
Le Havre ("Normandy region")
administrativeRegion
Richard I of England ("Duchy of Normandy")
alsoRuled
Alice Hoschedé
associatedPlace
Johan Barthold Jongkind
associatedWith
Pays de la Loire
bordersRegion
90th Infantry Division (United States)
campaign
Metropolitan France
contains
Normans
ethnogenesisPlace
The Longest Day
filmingLocation
River Seine
flowsThrough
Duke of Normandy ("Duchy of Normandy")
follows
716th Infantry Division
garrison
German 352nd Infantry Division
garrisonBeforeDday
27th Armoured Brigade ("Normandy, France")
geographicFocus
Mor Breizh
hasCoastlineOn
Sinclair
hasHistoricalRegionOfOrigin
Tracy
hasOriginRegion
murder of Jean-Paul Marat
hasPerpetratorOrigin
Channel Islands ("Duchy of Normandy")
historicalAffiliation
Crown in right of the Channel Islands ("Duchy of Normandy")
historicalOrigin
Broglie, Eure, France
historicalRegion
Seine-Maritime
historicProvince
Calvados department
historicRegion
Western France
includesRegion
11th Armoured Division
landedIn
Roger de Montgomery
landholderIn
Ouistreham
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
Giverny cemetery
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory
Channel Islands
locatedNear
Chausey
locatedOffCoastOf
Baie de Seine
locatedOnCoastOf
Normans
namedAfter
On to Berlin
narrativeLocation
Gold Beach ("Ver-sur-Mer")
nearestTown
House of Bruce
origin
Arromanches-les-Bains ("Normandy region")
partOf
Operation Lüttich
place
Eugène Boudin
placeOfActivity
Michael Wittmann
placeOfDeath
Roger de Montgomery
regionOfInfluence
German 352nd Infantry Division ("Normandy, France")
regionOfOperations
Rollo
regionRuled
House of Plantagenet ("Duchy of Normandy")
ruledTerritory
La Joie de vivre ("Normandy coast")
setting
Saving Private Ryan
settingPlace
Vikings
settledRegion
Kingdom of France
territoryIncludes
Cotentin Peninsula
traditionalProvince
Normandy ("Duchy of Normandy")
wasDuchy

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