Courrières

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Courrières ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France<ref>INSEE commune file</ref> about Template:Convert northeast of Lens. The Lens canal and the canalized river Deûle forms three quarters of the borders of the commune.

Nearest communesEdit

Harnes (west)
Estevelles (northwest)
Carvin (north)
Oignies (east)
Dourges (southeast)
Montigny-en-Gohelle

HistoryEdit

{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= Template:Ambox }} }} The Courrières mine disaster which resulted in 1,099 deaths on 10 March 1906. All the regions' coalmines were closed by 1970. It was the site of a massacre in 1940.