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.
- Town with about 7,680 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 130 metres (430 feet)
- Description: commune in Calvados, France
- Postal code: 14700
- Also known as“14258”“Falaise, Calvados”
Places of Interest
Discover Château de Falaise and Château de la Fresnaye.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Versainville and Eraines.
Versainville
Versainville is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.
Falaise
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Latitude
48.8965° or 48° 53′ 47″ north
Longitude
-0.1999° or 0° 11′ 60″ west
Open location code
8CWXVRW2+H2
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Falaise” goes by many names.
FalaiseAfrikaans
فاليزArabic
FalaiseAragonese
ՖալեզArmenian
FalaiseArpitan
FalaiseAsturian
FalezAzerbaijani
FalaiseBambara
ФалезBashkir
FalaiseBasque
FalaiseBavarian
ФалезBelarusian
ফালেজBengali
FalaiseBreton
ФалезBulgarian
FalaiseCajun French
FalaiseCatalan
FalaiseCebuano
Falaise, CalvadosCebuano
ФалезChechen
法莱斯Chinese
法萊斯Chinese
FalaiseCorsican
FalaiseCroatian
FalaiseCzech
FalaiseDanish
FalaiseDutch
Falaise (Calvados)Dutch
فاليزEgyptian Arabic
FalaiseEsperanto
FalaiseEstonian
FalaiseFaroese
FalaiseFinnish
FalaiseFriulian
FalaiseGalician
Falaise, CalvadosGalician
ΦαλαίζGreek
טירת פאלזHebrew
FalaiseHungarian
FalaiseIcelandic
FalaiseIdo
FalaiseIndonesian
Falaise, CalvadosIndonesian
FalaiseInterlingua
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FalaiseIrish
FalaiseItalian
FalaiseJamaican Creole English
ファレーズJapanese
FalaiseJèrriais
FalaiseKabyle
FalaiseKalaallisut
ФалезKazakh
FalaiseKongo
팔레즈Korean
FalaiseKurdish
Falaise, CalvadosKurdish
FalaiseLadin
FalaiseLatin
FalesiaLatin
FalaiseLatvian
FalaiseLigurian
FalaiseLimburgan
FalaiseLithuanian
FalaiseLow German
FalaiseLuxembourgish
FalaiseMainfränkisch
FalaiseMalagasy
FalaiseMalay
Falaise, CalvadosMalay
FalaiseMin Nan Chinese
FalaiseMinangkabau
FalaiseNeapolitan
FalaiseNorwegian
FalaiseNorwegian Bokmål
FalaiseNorwegian Nynorsk
FalaiseOccitan (post 1500)
FalaisePapiamento
فالز، کالوادسPersian
FalaisePicard
FalaisePiemontese
FalaisePolish
FalaisePrussian
FalaiseRomagnol
FalaiseRomanian
Falaise, CalvadosRomanian
FalaiseRomansh
ФалезRussian
FalaiseSardinian
FalaiseScots
FalaiseScottish Gaelic
FalaiseSerbian
FalezSerbian
ФалезSerbian
FalaiseSerbo-Croatian
FalaiseSicilian
FalaiseSilesian
FalaiseSlovak
FalaiseSlovenian
Falaise, CalvadosSlovenian
FalaiseSwahili
FalaiseSwedish
Falaise, CalvadosSwedish
FalaiseSwiss German
ஃபலேசுTamil
ஃபலேஸ்Tamil
ФалезTatar
FalaiseTurkish
Falaise, CalvadosTurkish
ФалезUkrainian
فالز، کالوادسUrdu
FalaiseUzbek
FalaiseVenetian
FalaiseVietnamese
Falaise, CalvadosVietnamese
FalaiseVlaams
FalaiseVolapük
FalaiseWalloon
FalaiseWaray (Philippines)
Falaise, CalvadosWaray (Philippines)
FalaiseWelsh
FalaiseWestern Frisian
FalaiseWolof
FalaiseYue Chinese
Falaise, CalvadosYue Chinese
FalaiseZulu
Places with the Same Name
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Val d’Ante and Saint-Adrien.
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