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Ailly-sur-Somme

commune in Somme, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ30712 ↗
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Ailly-sur-Somme (French pronunciation: [aji syʁ sɔm], literally Ailly on Somme; Picard: Ailly-su-Sonme) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography

The town is 5 miles to the west of Amiens, in the valley of the Somme.

Served by the N235 national road. Ailly-sur-Somme station has rail connections to Amiens and Abbeville.

History

Around 1850 : Implementation along the Somme, of jute processing factories.

11 juillet 1906 : Renowned Paris-Basle passenger train accident

Population

Personality

James Carmichaël, Scottish industrialist, who installed rope-making equipment.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1850, 1906—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ailly-sur-Somme, commune and Somme can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as commune in Somme, France. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30712. VIAF identifies the subject as 10144648123810481085. Authority coordinates are 49.927, 2.194. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1850 and 1906.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ailly-sur-Somme” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.