Marquise | |
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Coordinates: 50°48′55″N 1°42′15″E / 50.8153°N 1.7042°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Hauts-de-France |
Department | Pas-de-Calais |
Arrondissement | Boulogne-sur-Mer |
Canton | Desvres |
Intercommunality | CC Terre des Deux Caps |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Bernard Évrard [1] |
Area 1 | 13.46 km2 (5.20 sq mi) |
Population (2021)
[2] | 5,120 |
• Density | 380/km2 (990/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 ( CET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+02:00 ( CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code |
62560 /62250 |
Elevation | 1–67 m (3.3–219.8 ft) (avg. 39 m or 128 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Marquise (French pronunciation: [maʁkiz] ⓘ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. [3]
Marquise is a farming, quarrying and light industrial town, situated some 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Boulogne, at the junction of the D191, D231 and D238 roads. The river Slack flows through the commune, as does the A16 autoroute. Marquise-Rinxent station has rail connections to Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer.
Part of the Flemish-speaking territory until 1346, Marquise became an English county under
King Edward III after the
battle of Crécy and the hexagonal bell-tower goes back to the English period. In 1420, in the suburbs of Marquise, at
Leulinghen, the church of which was divided by the French-English border,
King Henry V married
Catherine of Valois, daughter of
Charles VI of France.
[4]
Marquise received national media attention in autumn 2006 when the local
gendarmerie retrieved a famous painting by
Maurice Boitel, stolen forty years before and taken out of France.
[5]
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1968 | 4,991 | — |
1975 | 4,953 | −0.11% |
1982 | 4,731 | −0.65% |
1990 | 4,453 | −0.75% |
1999 | 4,580 | +0.31% |
2007 | 5,067 | +1.27% |
2012 | 5,141 | +0.29% |
2017 | 5,088 | −0.21% |
Source: INSEE [6] |