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Roubaix

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Roubaix , city (1990 pop. 98,179), Nord dept., N France, in French Flanders. Part of the Lille urban area, Roubaix, with adjacent Tourcoing, is one of the largest textile (chiefly wool) centers in France; a national textile school is there. It was occupied by the Germans during World Wars I and II.

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Roubaix

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Roubaix, Nord‐Pas‐de‐Calais/France ‘A Stream in the Plain’ from ros or ross ‘swampy plain’ and bach or bais ‘stream’.

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