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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: indigo nursing home factory reset button 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: know-it-all wonderful heaven dingle berry 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: heady casino 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: indigo nursing home factory reset button 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: ruby blathering resort 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: know-it-all wonderful heaven dingle berry 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: ruby blathering resort 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: heady casino 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: indigo nursing home factory reset button 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: heady casino 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: indigo nursing home factory reset button 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: heady casino 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: beady-eyed pontificating spot (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: Razzle-dazzle at-the-ready stag film 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: indigo nursing home factory reset button 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: disgusting navy hospital Brest Le Havre Calais |
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Date: August 14th, 2018 6:55 AM Author: Sapphire Aromatic Weed Whacker Water Buffalo 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: poppy school cafeteria main people 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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