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Why isn't the northern coast of France more densely populated?
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:04 PM Author: underhanded aromatic pocket flask brunch The south coast of England is pretty dense, and of course the coastal parts of Belgium and the Netherlands have big cities. Why didn't France ever develop a big city on the English channel? Biggest metro area is Le Havre with 250k population. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612342) |
Date: August 13th, 2018 10:06 PM Author: Bateful french jew hunting ground historically because of raiders and warfare. vikings really tore the place apart for a while. and wars with england always led to pillage. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612365) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:07 PM Author: confused state 1) Viking raids during Viking Era. 2) Then hundreds of years of war with England who would have ass fucked any cities on the coast. 3) Hundreds of years before "Viking Raids" there were Scandinavian raiders raiding the western European coasts -- even during roman times and pre-roman times. So neither the Gauls / Celts nor the Romans put any cities there. |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:07 PM Author: underhanded aromatic pocket flask brunch interesting, ty. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612381) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:07 PM Author: Overrated Costumed Trump Supporter ITT: dumbasses who think the Vikings never raided the English coast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612384) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:08 PM Author: Bateful french jew hunting ground why do you think the norfolk coast is so lightly-populated? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612387) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:08 PM Author: Overrated Costumed Trump Supporter yeah this is why nobody lives in the North of England or anywhere in Ireland, because those areas got pwned by vikings 1000 years ago (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612393) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:09 PM Author: confused state Nice shity job trying to strawman us faggot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612396) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:09 PM Author: underhanded aromatic pocket flask brunch I assume they probably did too, but France has a larger interior area with better climate and farmland to retreat to, whereas England being a small island would always be more dependent on the coasts and seafaring, and southern England probably has the best land for farming. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612399) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:11 PM Author: confused state Not to mention that Major English cities are all inland. Not Paris inland, but inland. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612413) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:13 PM Author: underhanded aromatic pocket flask brunch True but England still has 5 metro areas on the south coast each larger than Le Havre:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Channel#Population |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:17 PM Author: confused state No shit -- the whole point of my comment was to acknowledge that fact. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612472) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:18 PM Author: infuriating business firm psychic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612478) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:10 PM Author: Startling Trip Point Probably because the Franks, who controlled France and Germany, had other cities for that. Then when France became a nation there were safer southern ports. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612410) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:15 PM Author: underhanded aromatic pocket flask brunch Yeah, just seems like the French really missed out on having a big important port city right there on their front doorstep in one of the busiest shipping areas of the world. Maybe there's no good natural port? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4051381&forum_id=2#36612456) |
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Date: August 13th, 2018 10:24 PM Author: startled thriller range Brest Le Havre Calais |
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Date: August 14th, 2018 6:55 AM Author: maroon pozpig Vikings you stupid dumbass OP. This has obviously remained a relevant problem.
I think it's just cold and rainy. |
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Date: August 14th, 2018 7:02 AM Author: chartreuse shivering national Normandy is awesome and I want to retire there.
I think maybe part of the real answer is that the Channel was historically hard as hell to navigate. Calais was the main trading port with the UK because it's closest to the other side. There wasn't a major economic demand for ports on the Channel coast outside of Calais which was the main conduit for trade with the UK.
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