High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sains-en-Gohelle is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.Sains-en-Gohelle is an ex-coalmining town, nowadays a farming and light industrial commune, 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest of Lens, at the junction of the D937 and the D166 roads. The A26 autoroute passes through the town. Pas-de-Calais is a department in northern France. Its name is the French equivalent of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. Inhabited sinsince prehistoric times, the Pas-de-Calais region was populated in turn by the Celtic Belgae, the Romans, the Germanic Franks and the Alemanni. During the fourth and fifth centuries, the Roman practice of coopting Germanic tribes to provide military and defense services along the route from Boulogne to Cologne created a Germanic-Romance linguistic border in the region that persisted until the eighth century.