Thoix
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Thoix (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx) is a commune in the Somme department in the Hauts-de-France of northern France.
Geography
Thoix is situated Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Amiens, on the D100 road. The Parquets river, a small tributary of the river Évoissons, which flows into the Selle, has its source in Thoix and also feeds the castle moat
Population
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History
The village has been known by many names over the centuries: Teoletum, Teoleium, Tois in 1140, Thois in 1212 and Thoys by 1301. The inhabitants are known as Téoduliens.
Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet (1488–1525), a favourite of king Francis I, was seigneur of Thoix.
Places of interest
- The fifteenth-century château.
- Saint-Etienne's fifteenth-century church
- A fifteenth-century stone cross in the square
- A dovecote in the courtyard of the farm opposite the château
- A memorial to an aerial combat between a French aeroplane and 8 German fighter planes on 5 June 1940.
See also
References
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