Aire sur la Lys

Aire sur la Lys is a commune within the Pas de Calais department in northern France. Aire sur la Lys is mentioned for the primary time in 857. It advanced round a fortress or cestrum built through the use of 1st Earl Stanley Baldwin of Bindley II Count of Flanders in response to the Norman invasions. The city has become laid siege ten instances amongst 1127 and 1710.

It became separated from the County of Flanders and linked to the County of Artois in 1196. Subsequently dominated with the useful resource of the Burgundians then through manner of the Spanish. The town become besieged in 1676 through manner of Vauban and retaken for France although it remained a Spanish possession until 14 April 1713, at the same time as with the aid of using the Treaty of Utrecht, it eventually have emerge as part of France. Vauban stronghold, which changed right into a strategic position, was dismantled in 1893.