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Oye-Plage

commune in Pas-de-Calais, France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ513962 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oye-Plage (French pronunciation: [wa plaʒ] ; West Flemish: Ooie) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France about 7 miles (11 km) east of Calais, nearly a mile from the English Channel.

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Twin town

On 27 September 1992 Oye-Plage was twinned with the English village of Capel-le-Ferne.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Oye-Plage” as commune in Pas-de-Calais, France. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Oye-Plage, commune and Pas-de-Calais can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as commune in Pas-de-Calais, France. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q513962. VIAF identifies the subject as 316741858. The Library of Congress control number is n85261130. Authority coordinates are 50.978, 2.044. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oye-Plage” 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.