Falaise
Falaise is a town on the Ante River in the French department of Calvados, south of the regional centre Caen. It is famous as the birthplace of William the Conqueror and as the scene of remarkably fierce fighting in August 1944 during the Battle of Normandy, after the D-Day landings on the coast north of Caen.
- Type: Town with 7,780 residents
- Description: commune in Calvados, France
- Also known as: “14258”, “Falaise (Calvados)”, “Falaise, Calvados”, and “ஃபலேஸ்”
- Postal code: 14700
Places of Interest
Highlights: Château de Falaise and Château de la Fresnaye.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Versainville and Eraines.
Versainville
Village
Eraines
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Falaise
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France, Europe
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Latitude
48.8965° or 48° 53′ 47″ north
Longitude
-0.1999° or 0° 11′ 60″ west
Population
7,780
Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)
Open location code
8CWXVRW2+H2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Falaise” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Falaise”
- Arabic: “فاليز”
- Aragonese: “Falaise”
- Armenian: “Ֆալեզ”
- Arpitan: “Falaise”
- Asturian: “Falaise”
- Azerbaijani: “Falez”
- Bambara: “Falaise”
- Bashkir: “Фалез”
- Basque: “Falaise”
- Bavarian: “Falaise”
- Belarusian: “Фалез”
- Bengali: “ফালেজ”
- Breton: “Falaise”
- Bulgarian: “Фалез”
- Cajun French: “Falaise”
- Catalan: “Falaise”
- Cebuano: “Falaise, Calvados”
- Cebuano: “Falaise”
- Chechen: “Фалез”
- Chinese: “法莱斯”
- Chinese: “法萊斯”
- Corsican: “Falaise”
- Croatian: “Falaise”
- Czech: “Falaise”
- Danish: “Falaise”
- Dutch: “Falaise”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فاليز”
- Esperanto: “Falaise”
- Estonian: “Falaise”
- Faroese: “Falaise”
- Finnish: “Falaise”
- French: “Falaise”
- Friulian: “Falaise”
- Galician: “Falaise, Calvados”
- Galician: “Falaise”
- German: “Falaise”
- Greek: “Φαλαίζ”
- Hebrew: “טירת פאלז”
- Hungarian: “Falaise”
- Icelandic: “Falaise”
- Ido: “Falaise”
- Indonesian: “Falaise, Calvados”
- Indonesian: “Falaise”
- Interlingua: “Falaise”
- Interlingue: “Falaise”
- Irish: “Falaise”
- Italian: “Falaise”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Falaise”
- Japanese: “ファレーズ”
- Jèrriais: “Falaise”
- Kabyle: “Falaise”
- Kalaallisut: “Falaise”
- Kazakh: “Фалез”
- Kongo: “Falaise”
- Korean: “팔레즈”
- Kurdish: “Falaise, Calvados”
- Kurdish: “Falaise”
- Ladin: “Falaise”
- Latin: “Falesia”
- Latvian: “Falaise”
- Ligurian: “Falaise”
- Limburgan: “Falaise”
- Lithuanian: “Falaise”
- Low German: “Falaise”
- Luxembourgish: “Falaise”
- Mainfränkisch: “Falaise”
- Malagasy: “Falaise”
- Malay: “Falaise, Calvados”
- Malay: “Falaise”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Falaise”
- Minangkabau: “Falaise”
- Neapolitan: “Falaise”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Falaise”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Falaise”
- Norwegian: “Falaise”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Falaise”
- Papiamento: “Falaise”
- Persian: “فالز، کالوادس”
- Picard: “Falaise”
- Piemontese: “Falaise”
- Polish: “Falaise”
- Portuguese: “Falaise”
- Prussian: “Falaise”
- Romagnol: “Falaise”
- Romanian: “Falaise, Calvados”
- Romanian: “Falaise”
- Romansh: “Falaise”
- Russian: “Фалез”
- Sardinian: “Falaise”
- Scots: “Falaise”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Falaise”
- Serbian: “Falez”
- Serbian: “Фалез”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Falaise”
- Sicilian: “Falaise”
- Silesian: “Falaise”
- Slovak: “Falaise”
- Slovenian: “Falaise, Calvados”
- Slovenian: “Falaise”
- Spanish: “Falaise”
- Swahili: “Falaise”
- Swedish: “Falaise, Calvados”
- Swedish: “Falaise”
- Swiss German: “Falaise”
- Tamil: “ஃபலேசு”
- Tatar: “Фалез”
- Turkish: “Falaise, Calvados”
- Turkish: “Falaise”
- Ukrainian: “Фалез”
- Urdu: “فالز، کالوادس”
- Uzbek: “Falaise”
- Venetian: “Falaise”
- Vietnamese: “Falaise, Calvados”
- Vietnamese: “Falaise”
- Vlaams: “Falaise”
- Volapük: “Falaise”
- Walloon: “Falaise”
- Waray (Philippines): “Falaise, Calvados”
- Waray (Philippines): “Falaise”
- Welsh: “Falaise”
- Western Frisian: “Falaise”
- Wolof: “Falaise”
- Yue Chinese: “Falaise, Calvados”
- Yue Chinese: “Falaise”
- Zulu: “Falaise”
- “Falaise”
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