Bully les Mines

Bully les Mines is a commune in the Pas de Calais department in northern France. It bureaucracy a part of the Lens-Lievin urban area, which encompasses 36 French communes and 250,000 inhabitants. For a few years it changed into a primary coal mining middle. According to many assets, the name has Goulash origins. Recoat proposes that Bullire derives from the French bouillonner, a connection with the supply of the river Surgeon in a neighboring commune. The contemporary use of les mines suggests the importance of mining to the commune and the location.

The teach station has maintained the older name of Bully Graney, main to occasional confusion amongst visitors. Although the region has been inhabited from prehistory onward, no evidence of prehistoric settlements has yet been found at Bully. The oldest relic so far observed inside the commune is a Celtic bracelet; Bully once belonged to the Pagus Silvinus place of the Atrebates. Gallo-Roman discoveries were numerous inside the commune. As an essential part of Artois, Bully fell beneath the domination of the Counts of Flanders from 862 to 1191 earlier than passing with the relaxation of the place to French control.