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Noun Named Entity
Categories: French Flanders, France–United Kingdom border crossings, Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom), Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast, Vauban fortifications in France
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Dunkirk  Dunkerque  British Dunkirk  Duenkirchen  Duinkerke
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A seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II WordNet 3.0
Geonames
Definitions
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A seaport in northern France on the North Sea; scene of the evacuation of British forces in 1940 during World War II WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Dunkirk is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France. Wikipedia
Town and port in northern France. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Commune in Nord, France Wikidata
IS A
port
town
city
border town
commune of France
AWARD RECEIVED
Croix de Guerre 1914–1918
Croix de Guerre 1939–1945
CAPITAL OF
arrondissement of Dunkirk
canton of Dunkerque-Ouest
canton of Dunkerque-Est
canton of Dunkerque-1
canton of Dunkerque-2
COUNTRY
France
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Sytin Military Encyclopedia
HEAD OF GOVERNMENT
Patrice Vergriete
LANGUAGE USED
French
West Flemish
LOCATED IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE TERRITORIAL ENTITY
arrondissement of Dunkirk
Nord
Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque
canton of Dunkerque-Ouest
canton of Dunkerque-Est
LOCATED IN TIME ZONE
UTC+01:00
UTC+02:00
REPLACES
Mardyck
Rosendaël
Petite-Synthe
Malo-les-Bains
SHARES BORDER WITH
Armbouts-Cappel
Leffrinckoucke
Loon-Plage
Cappelle-la-Grande
Spycker
+4 relations
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
Siege of Dunkirk
Siege of Dunkirk
Siege of Dunkirk
Siege of Dunkirk
TWINNED ADMINISTRATIVE BODY
Riga
Rostock
Krefeld
Liberec
Ramat HaSharon
+2 relations
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Dunkirk, Dunkerque
Wikipedia
EN
Dunkirk
Wikidata
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Dunkirk
GeoNames
EN
Dunkirk
Wikipedia Redirections
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British Dunkirk, Duenkirchen, Duinkerke, Duinkerken, Dunkerk, Dunkerque, Dunkerque, Nord, Dunkirchen, Dunkirk, France, Dunquerke, Dunquerque, Dünkirchen, Malo-les-Bains
Wikidata Alias
EN
Duinkerke, Dune-Libre, Dunkerque, Dünkirchen

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