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Artois

/aʁ.twa/

proper noun/aʁ.twa/

a former county of the Kingdom of France, in what is now northern France; a former state in the Holy Roman Empire, in what is now northern France

Inherited from Old French Arteis, from Latin Atrebatēs (pagus Atrebatensis), referring to a pre-Roman Gallo-Germanic tribe in northwestern Gaul.