High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sains-lès-Marquion is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.Sains-lès-Marquion lies about 19 miles (31 km) southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D15 and D16 roads. Pas-de-Calais is a department in northern France. Its name is the French equivalent of the Strait of Dover, which it borders.Inhabited since 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.