Lievin

Lievin is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The population are known as Lievinois. The history of Lievin starts off evolved in ancient times. The foothill of Raiment highest point in Lievin is a rich archaeological website. Traces of Neolithic and Gallo-Roman periods had been determined there, and 752 tombs attest that Lievin turned into as soon as a Merovingian burial floor. Coal turned into observed inside the region of Lens, Pas-de-Calais in 1849, and close to Liein in 1857. This induced a time of extraordinary productiveness, prosperity, and populace growth. The populace of Levin changed into 25,698 in 1914.

The First World War brutally ended Lievin enlargement. The town became ruined, the church buildings and castles destroyed. Human losses have been 400 civilian and 600 navy. The town of Lievin was provided the Croix de Guerre in 1920. After the conflict, it changed into important to rebuild the whole thing. After some years, Lievin became again an lively metropolis, and mining recommenced. The city of Lievin is an antique mining location of Pas-de-Calais. Near Lens, this town is of modest size but has numerous nursery colleges, colleges, faculties, a university, a swimming pool, a city library, a cultural and social center a sanatorium, a protected stadium, several gardens and parks, movie theaters, cemeteries, a Catholic church, a shopping center, a National Police station.