Thélus is a
communeThe commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life; from Latin communis, things held in common.French communes are roughly...
in the
Pas-de-CalaisPas-de-Calais is a department in northern France. Its name is the French equivalent of the Strait of Dover, which it borders.-History:Inhabited since prehistoric times, the Pas-de-Calais region was populated in turn by the Celtic Belgae, the Romans, the Germanic Franks and the Alemanni...
department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of
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Thélus is a
communeThe commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin communia, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life; from Latin communis, things held in common.French communes are roughly...
in the
Pas-de-CalaisPas-de-Calais is a department in northern France. Its name is the French equivalent of the Strait of Dover, which it borders.-History:Inhabited since prehistoric times, the Pas-de-Calais region was populated in turn by the Celtic Belgae, the Romans, the Germanic Franks and the Alemanni...
department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
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Geography
Thélus lies north of Arras, at the junction of the
N17The Route nationale 17, or RN17, is a trunk road in France connecting Paris to the frontier with Belgium.-Reclassification:The majority of the route runs close to the A1 autoroute. As a result north of Senlis the road has been downgraded and re-classified as the RD1017 and RD917...
and D49 roads. Junction 7 of the
A26 autorouteThe A26 is a 394 km long French motorway connecting Calais and Troyes. It is also known as the Autoroute des Anglais as it is the main route from the Dover-Calais ferries and the channel tunnel to most parts of France and often contains large numbers of British cars, particularly during the...
is less than a mile away. The commune was at the heart of the
battle of Vimy RidgeThe Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps against three divisions of the German Sixth Army...
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Population
style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em"|Population history
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 |
|---|
| 659 |
703 |
853 |
887 |
998 |
1022 |
1204 |
| Census count starting in 1962: Population without duplicates |
Places of interest
- The church of St.Ranulphe, rebuilt, as was most of the village, after World War I
World War I , also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict which involved most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance...
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- Two memorials to the Canadians who fell during the First World War.
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states established through Royal Charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces killed during the two World Wars...
cemeteries.
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