![]() About AD 960, Count Baldwin III had a town wall erected in order to protect the settlement against Viking raids. History Middle Ages Saint Eloi ChurchĪ fishing village arose late in the tenth century, in the originally flooded coastal area of the English Channel south of the Western Scheldt, when the area was held by the Counts of Flanders, vassals of the French Crown. Until the middle of the 20th century, French Flemish (the local variety of Dutch) was commonly spoken. A smaller town 25 km (15 miles) farther up the Flemish coast originally shared the same name, but was later renamed Oostduinkerke(n) in order to avoid confusion. ![]() The name of Dunkirk derives from West Flemish dun(e) ' dune' or ' dun' and kerke 'church', thus 'church in the dunes'. The population of the commune in 2019 was 86,279. It lies 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the Belgian border. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.ĭunkirk ( UK: / d ʌ n ˈ k ɜːr k/ dun- KURK, US: / ˈ d ʌ n k ɜːr k/ DUN-kurk Dutch: Duinkerke, French: Dunkerque ⓘ) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.
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