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Cambrai (US: / k æ m ˈ b r eɪ, k ɒ̃ ˈ-/, [3] [4] French: ⓘ; Picard: Kimbré; Dutch: Kamerijk), formerly Cambray [4] and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river.
The Battle of Cambrai ( Battle of Cambrai, 1917, First Battle of Cambrai and Schlacht von Cambrai) was a British attack in the First World War, followed by the biggest German counter-attack against the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) since 1914. The town of Cambrai, in the département of Nord, in France, was an important supply centre for ...
The War of the League of Cambrai, sometimes known as the War of the Holy League and several other names, [ 1] was fought from February 1508 to December 1516 as part of the Italian Wars of 1494–1559. The main participants of the war, who fought for its entire duration, were France, the Papal States, and the Republic of Venice; they were joined ...
Cambrésis ( French: [kɑ̃bʁezi], Dutch: Kamerijk, German: Kammerich) is a former pagus, county and prince-bishopric of the medieval Holy Roman Empire that was annexed to the Kingdom of France in 1679. It is now regarded as one of the "natural regions" of France, and roughly equivalent to the Arrondissement of Cambrai in department Nord.
League of Cambrai. Northern Italy in 1494. The League of Cambrai was a military coalition against the Republic of Venice formed on 8 December 1508, by the main European powers ( Holy Roman Empire, Spain and France ), to maintain their hegemony over the Italian Peninsula .
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai (English: Cambrai Museum of Fine Arts), also known as the Musée de Cambrai, is the main museum in the northern French city of Cambrai. It holds collections of archaeology, visual arts and local heritage. Of particular note among the holdings are works by Flemish and Dutch painters of the 17th century and ...
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