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Wattrelos
France
Wattrelos, town, Nord département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France, on the Belgian-French border. A northeastern suburb of Roubaix, it has textile, chemical, and metallurgical industries. The community was known as Waterloz in 1030, and the discovery of a golden effigy of Nero in 1864 indicated Roman occupation of the area. Pop. (1999) 42,753; (2014 est.) 41,337.
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