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Coordinates: 50°43′35″N 1°36′53″E / 50.7264°N 1.6147°E / 50.7264; 1.6147
Boulogne-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [bu.lɔɲ.syʁ.mɛʁ]) is a city in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. The population of the city was 44,859 in the 1999 census, whereas that of the whole metropolitan area was 135,116.
The name Boulogne was first recorded during the Roman Empire as Bononia, possibly a derivative of the root found in the Germanic word bona meaning "plank floor", related to "Bühne", German for theater stage and also found in Vindobona, the Roman name for Vienna. A "bona" was probably a granary. This derivation is also found in the name of the Italian city of Bologna. This city was founded by the celtic Boii. "Sur mer" is French meaning "on the sea".
Originally named Gesoriacum and probably also to be identified with Portus Itius, by the 4th century Boulogne was known to the Romans as Bononia and served as the major port connecting the rest of the empire to Britain. The emperor Claudius used this town as his base for the Roman invasion of Britain, in AD 43, and until 296 it was the base of the Classis Britannica.[citation needed]Zosimus called the city "germanorum", Germanic speaking, at the end of the 4th century. The city was an important town of the Morini.
When we started everything seemed shiny and bright
Beyond our means but not quite out of reach
How far beyond do you think we need to go
Cause I don't want to live that way
Amberwood
It doesn't matter what we planned to do this time
Those plans are being laid aside again
Unforeseen is my new middle name
But I don't want to live this way
Amberwood
Take a second
Take a minute
Take an hour
Take a week
To decide how it all will turn out
And in that second
In that minute
In that hour in that week
You will know if your ready to go
And if it's worth it all
Its not as far away as you might think it is
People are doing these things everyday
I don't see how they're much better than us
But they don't have to live this way
Amberwood