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Dechy (French pronunciation: [dəʃi]) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.[3]

Population

Toponymy

The town has been named, Diptiacum in 899, (Cartulary of Saint-Amand, Miroeus), Diptiacum in 906, Diciacum in 1097, Diptiacum in 1107, Dichis in 1181 (Chronique Gislebert), Dici in 1205[6]

It probably comes from an old *Deppiacum, based of the gallic name Deppios[7] followed from the suffix -acum[8] (from the gallic -acon) of location and property, with the global meaning « property, farm of Deppios ». The suffix -(i)acum has generally finished as -y in the North (-ecque in the previous dutch speaking area and -eke in flemish), the plural form, appeared later -iacas to -ies.

History

Middle Age

The archeological statistics of the Nord departement of 1867 indicate:[9]

  • Since 7th century, Dechy containing maybe Férin belonged to the Saint-Amand Abbay. The count of Ostrevent had advocatus that was explaining Dechy and Férin of Hainaut county, although near of Douai.
  • A hospital was already existing in 1218, the patient care were made by the sisters of the Abbaye of Beaulieu in Sin-le-Noble[10]
  • In 1205, the abbe Jean gives to his vassals of Dechy and Férin a penal law copied of the one in Douai.

Heraldry

Arms of Dechy
Arms of Dechy
 The arms of Dechy are blazoned :

Or, an eagle sable dimidiated with Azure semy de lys Or. The latter being France Ancient (Dechy, Férin and Saint-Saulve use the same arms.)



See also

References

  1. ^ “Répertoire national des élus: les maires”. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ “Populations de référence 2023” (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
  3. ^ INSEE commune file
  4. ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d’aujourd’hui: Commune data sheet Dechy, EHESS (in French).
  5. ^ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
  6. ^ Statistique archéologique du département du Nord, op. cit. en bibliographie, p. 612-613.
  7. ^ Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France, Librairie Guénégaud Paris VIe, reissue 1979, p. 241b.
  8. ^ Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, op. cit.
  9. ^ Statistique archéologique du département du Nord, op. cit. en bibliographie, p. 613.
  10. ^ Pierre-Antoine-Samuel-Joseph Plouvain (1828), Éphémérides historiques de la ville de Douai: Biographie douaisienne (2 ed.), Douai: impr. de Deregnaucourt, p. 40, retrieved 5 January 2018, sur Gallica.