Athies (French pronunciation: [ati]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

[3] A village located 2 miles (3 km) east of Arras at the junction of the D37 and D42 roads.

Initially, Athies was called Atheiae, a word taken from Latin which means ’’hut’’, which indicates than it was a marshy area with shacks for fishermen or peat-gatherers.

In 1493, the village was looted and burned by German soldiers from the garrison of Arras.

The old church that was destroyed during the 1914-18 war had been built in 1786 just before the French Revolution.