Bollezeele
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 A view within Bollezeele | |
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| Coordinates: 50°51′55″N 2°19′29″E / 50.8653°N 2.3247°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Hauts-de-France |
| Department | Nord |
| Arrondissement | Dunkirk |
| Canton | Wormhout |
| Intercommunality | Hauts de Flandre |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Pierre Marle[1] |
Area 1 | 17.54 km2 (6.77 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 1,445 |
| • Density | 82.38/km2 (213.4/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 59089 /59470 |
| Elevation | 2–52 m (6.6–170.6 ft) (avg. 44 m or 144 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Bollezeele (French pronunciation: [bɔlzɛl]; from Dutch; Bollezele in the modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.[3]
It is 17 km (11 mi) south of Dunkirk and also 20 km (12 mi) west of the Belgian border. The river Yser runs through Bollezeele.
Language
[edit]Bollezeele's local speech is traditionally a Flemish dialect, similar to that spoken on the other side of the border with Belgium; this led to the town's being included in the Atlas Linguarum Europae as one of the Germanic dialects in France (the others were all in either Alsace or Moselle).[4]
Population
[edit]| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 1,389 | — |
| 1975 | 1,328 | −0.64% |
| 1982 | 1,500 | +1.76% |
| 1990 | 1,476 | −0.20% |
| 1999 | 1,382 | −0.73% |
| 2007 | 1,384 | +0.02% |
| 2012 | 1,425 | +0.59% |
| 2017 | 1,435 | +0.14% |
| 2023 | 1,445 | +0.12% |
| Source: INSEE[5] | ||
Heraldry
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The arms of Bollezeele are blazoned : Or, a lion sable armed and langued gules. ('Flanders' and the communes of Thourotte, Crépy-en-Valois, Bollezeele, Feignies, Flines-lez-Raches and Wormhout use the same arms.)
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ↑ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
- ↑ INSEE commune file
- ↑ Eder, Birgit (2003). Ausgewählte Verwandtschaftsbezeichnungen in den Sprachen Europas. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. p. 299. ISBN 3631528736.
- ↑ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
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