Oise
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Oise
- One of the departments in Picardy, Hauts-de-France, France. Capital: Beauvais (INSEE code 60)
- A river in northern France
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department
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Named after the River Oise, itself from or related to the Roman river name Latin Isara,[1] thus also related to the river Isère.
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Oise f
- Oise (a department of Hauts-de-France, France)
- Oise (a right tributary of the Seine, in northeastern France and Belgium)
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- ^ Albert Dauzat, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de rivières et de montagnes en France, Paris, Klincksieck, 1982, 234 p., p. 56