Somme River
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Somme river
The Somme is a river in north-eastern France.
The river is 245 km long, the source is at Fonsommes near Saint-Quentin, it ends into the English Channel. The river is maybe most famous due to the World War I battle of the Somme (1916).
The name Somme comes from a Celtic word meaning tranquility.
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