Etaple

Etaples got its name from the old Dutch word “stapal”, which meant “main port”. Port Etaples really was part of the administrative and economic complex with a center in Montreux and was its sea gate after the sea receded to the west.

In ancient times, Etaples was one of the ports in which the Roman fleet was located in preparation for the conquest of Britain. In the IX century, the coast was the object of frequent raids by the Normans, who founded their settlement here. For them, Etaples was an ideal naval base, sheltered by the surrounding swamps and swamps, from where it was possible to raid the inland areas, collect trophies and take them home.

In 1172, Count of Boulogne, Mathieu of Alsace, built a fort on the site of an old Roman settlement. In 1193, King Philip II Augustus made it the main base of his northern fleet, since the passage of the southern part of Boulogne to France opened her access to the sea.

The etaple was repeatedly ruined during the Hundred Years War . The first time he was burned in 1346 by Edward III , returning from the Battle of Cresi . Over the next two hundred years, the city was ruined four more times and burned. To top it all off, in 1596 an epidemic of plague went through it.

On November 3, 1492, the kings of France, Charles VIII and England, Henry VII, signed here the Peace of Etaples, which put an end to many years of war.

By the middle of the 19th century, Etaples was a contingent town with no prospects. The situation was changed by the construction of the Amiens - Boulogne railway, which passed through the city. The establishment of rail links gave new impetus to trade relations, and the city received further development as a fishing port. Long dunes also began to attract lovers of sea recreation, although Etaples still remained primarily an industrial base, and Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, built on the opposite bank of the Kans River, became a tourist center.

• Maritime Museum
• Archaeological Museum
• War cemetery

Employment structure ^[1] :

• agriculture - 3.4%
• industry - 26.7%
• construction - 4.7%
• trade, transport and services - 37.0%
• state and municipal services - 28.1%

The unemployment rate ( 2013 ) is 18.4% (France as a whole - 12.8%, the Pas de Calais department - 17.2%).
The average annual income per person, euro ( 2013 ) - 16 055 (France as a whole - 25 140, the department of the Pas de Calais - 17 706).

Since 2008, the Mayor of Etaples has been a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents Party Philippe Fait. In the 2014 municipal elections, the right-wing bloc headed by him won the 2nd round with the participation of five blocs of different political orientations, receiving 37.03% of the vote. ^[2]

Population dynamics, people

•   Folkestone , UK
•   Hückeswagen , Germany

• Jacob Faber (c. 1460-1536), French humanist, theologian, philosopher, music theorist, mathematician. Best known as a French translator of the New Testament and Psalms.

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