Santerre (province)
The Santerre is a historic landscape in Picardy in northern France. The name is derived from the Latin sana terra. The landscape was the site of the Battle of the Somme in World War I in 1916 .
location
The Santerre, which covers an area of around 3000 km² with 242 communities with around 106,000 inhabitants, is located east of Amiens to Saint-Quentin between the rivers Avre , Luce and Somme in what is now the Somme department . In the east it is bounded by the Vermandois landscape . The main part of the Santerre is a chalk plateau.
nature
The landscape, which was heavily forested until the early Middle Ages, forms a monotonous but fertile plateau in which the cultivation of grain and sugar beet predominates. The "good earth" has a thickness of 7 to 10 cm. The area is mainly managed by large homesteads.
economy
Outstanding are the processing of agricultural products ( Bonduelle ), the sugar and glucose production ( Roye , Eppeville , Nesle ), which are promoted by the good transport links (TGV-Nord; two motorways; planned Canal Seine-Nord Europe ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guide Michelin: Nord de la France, 1980, p. 10, ISBN 2-06-003420-5