Bavay
Bavay is a commune in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. Currently a small town with about 3,200 inhabitants, it was an important Roman city, capital of the Nervii.
- Type: Town with 3,250 residents
- Description: commune in Nord, France
- Also known as: “Bacacum”, “Bavacum”, “Bavai”, “Bavaisis”, “Buvigny”, “Louvignies-Bavay”, “Λουβινί-Μπαβαί”, “Μπαβαιζί”, and “Μπυβινί”
- Postal code: 59570
Places of Interest
Highlights: Château d’Audignies and Château de Rametz.
Église Notre-Dame de l’Assomption de Bavay
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Houdain-lez-Bavay and Bermeries.
Saint-Waast
Village
Bavay
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, North, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
50.2979° or 50° 17′ 52″ north
Longitude
3.7949° or 3° 47′ 42″ east
Population
3,250
Elevation
149 metres (489 feet)
UN/LOCODE
FR BWY
Open location code
9F257QXV+5X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Bavay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Bavay”
- Albanian: “Bavay”
- Amharic: “ባቬ”
- Aragonese: “Bavay”
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- Cebuano: “Bavay”
- Chechen: “Баве”
- Chinese: “巴韋”
- Chinese: “巴韦”
- Corsican: “Bavay”
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- Danish: “Bavay”
- Dutch: “Bavay”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بافاى”
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- German: “Bavay”
- Greek: “Μπαβαί”
- Hungarian: “Bavay”
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- Japanese: “バヴェ”
- Jèrriais: “Bavay”
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- Kalaallisut: “Bavay”
- Kazakh: “Bave”
- Kazakh: “Баве”
- Kazakh: “باۆە”
- Kongo: “Bavay”
- Kurdish: “Bavay”
- Ladin: “Bavay”
- Latin: “Bagacum Nerviorum”
- Latin: “Bagacum”
- Latvian: “Bavay”
- Ligurian: “Bavay”
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- Lithuanian: “Bavay”
- Low German: “Bavay”
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- Occitan (post 1500): “Bavay”
- Papiamento: “Bavay”
- Persian: “بهوه”
- Picard: “Bavay”
- Piemontese: “Bavay”
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- Prussian: “Bavay”
- Romagnol: “Bavay”
- Romanian: “Bavay”
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- Russian: “Баве”
- Sardinian: “Bavay”
- Scots: “Bavay”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bavay”
- Serbian: “Bave”
- Serbian: “Баве”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bavay”
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- Tatar: “Баве”
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- Waray (Philippines): “Bavay”
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- Zulu: “Bavay”
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