Beauvaisis

The Beauvaisis or Beauvoisis (from Latin Bellovaci ) is a historical landscape of France in the Île-de-France . It lies south of the Amiénois and north of the Vexin français. To the west of the Beauvaisis were the territories of the Lords of Compiègne and Senlis . The main town is Beauvais , other towns are Clermont , Liancourt , Fitz-James , Gerberoy , Boufflers , Beaumont . At the time of the Ancien Régime , the Beauvaisis belonged first to the ruler of Picardy , then to that of the Île-de-France. Today it is part of the Oise department in the Picardy region .

Places with "en-Beauvaisis" in their name

• Marseille-en-Beauvaisis
• Pierrefitte-en-Beauvaisis

The place Clermont used to be called "Clermont-en-Bauvaisis".

See also

• Communauté d'agglomération du Beauvaisis
• County of Beauvais

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Jäger: Geographical-Historical-Statistical Newspaper Lexicon . tape 1 : A-H . Grattenauer, 1805, p. 224 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Beauvaisis in the Dictionnaire de Trévoux on Wikisource (French). 6th edition, 1771, p. 825.
3. ↑ Peter Adolph Winkopp: The latest state, newspaper, travel, postal and trading encyclopedia or geographical-historical-statistical manual of all five parts of the earth…. tape 1 : A-D . Kleefeld, Leipzig 1804, p. 485 ( digitized version in the Google book search).