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Tervanna
Thérouanne
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Tervanna was the chief town of the Morini, a Gallic people on the Channel coast, and its Celtic name goes back to tarvos, the bull. It grew up at a ford across the river Lys, spreading from a river island onto the northern bank, and an inscription naming a magistrate of the colony of the Morini suggests it was raised to the rank of a Roman colony. Little of it survives: in 1553 Charles the Fifth had the old town razed, and today's Thérouanne in the Pas-de-Calais lies a little further south. On the road towards Arras, a station seems to have dropped out of the map.