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Normandy ( / ˈnɔːrməndi /; French: Normandie [nɔʁmɑ̃di] ⓘ; Norman: Normaundie, Nouormandie [nɔʁ.mɛnde]; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) [2] is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the ...
- 30,627 km² (11,825 sq mi)
- Norman
La Normandia è una regione storica ed amministrativa della Francia . Si affaccia a nord sul canale della Manica e confina a sud-ovest con la Bretagna, a sud con i Paesi della Loira e con il Centro-Valle della Loira, a est con l' Île-de-France e a nord-est con l' Alta Francia.
The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day , it is the largest seaborne invasion in history.
- 6 June 1944
- Five Allied beachheads established in Normandy
- Allied victory
The coat of arms of Normandy. Normandy was a province in the North-West of what later became France under the Ancien Régime which lasted until the later part of the 18th century. Initially populated by Celtic tribes in the West and Belgic tribes in the North East, it was conquered in AD 98 by the Romans and integrated into the ...
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 ( D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune).
5 giorni fa · Normandy, historic and cultural region of northern France encompassing the départements of Manche, Calvados, Orne, Eure, and Seine-Maritime and coextensive with the former province of Normandy. It was recreated as an administrative entity in 2016 with the union of the régions of Basse-Normandie and Haute-Normandie.