Semide

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Coordinates: 49°20′30″N 4°35′01″E / 49.341735, 4.58347

Commune of Semide
Location
Semide (France)
Semide
Administration
Country France
Region Champagne-Ardenne
Department Ardennes
Arrondissement Vouziers
Canton Machault
Intercommunality Argonne Ardennaise
Mayor Jean-Marc Lampson
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 110 m–204 m
(avg. 149 m)
Land area¹ 37,04 km²
Population²
(2004)		 216
 - Density 6/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 08410/ 08400
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

Semide is a commune in the Ardennes department in the Champagne-Ardenne region in northern of France. It is located 200 km northeast of Paris, 40 km of Reims). The inhabitants are called Semidas. Semide main's activity is farming, predominantly cereal and sugar beet production.

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[edit] History

Semide has not always been what it is today. Formerly, the chalky soil gave bad harvest. This poor land, where resinous had been plant under the Second Empire provided to the sheep kine sparse grass. In the 1960s, Semide underwent a change which has modified its economy, its way of life and the landscape. Mecanisation, motorisation, clearing, fertilizer utilization and regrouping of lands mark out the intensive farming beginning dominates by cereals.

[edit] Demography

Demography evolution
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2004
314 293 251 264 258 245 216

[edit] Heritage

[edit] External links (in French)

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