Céreste
| Céreste | ||
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The village of Céreste | ||
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  Céreste | ||
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Location within Provence-A.-C.d'A. region  Céreste | ||
| Coordinates: 43°51′24″N 5°35′16″E / 43.8567°N 5.5878°ECoordinates: 43°51′24″N 5°35′16″E / 43.8567°N 5.5878°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | |
| Department | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence | |
| Arrondissement | Forcalquier | |
| Canton | Reillanne | |
| Intercommunality | Haute Provence | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Gérard Baumel | |
| Area1 | 32.54 km2 (12.56 sq mi) | |
| Population (2008)2 | 1,208 | |
| • Density | 37/km2 (96/sq mi) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 04045 / 04280 | |
| Elevation |
323–971 m (1,060–3,186 ft) (avg. 370 m or 1,210 ft) | |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
Céreste (Occitan: Ceirèsta) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.
Geography
The river Calavon forms the commune's northern and northwestern borders.
History
A Gallo-Roman period settlement was established in the quarter of today's Saint-Sauveur priory, possibly as a crossing control point for the river.[1] Surviving relics of the Roman period include a potters' oven, an ancient tomb and Sarcophagi at Saint-Sauveur.
The Priory of Carluc was founded in the eleventh century. Another priory, that of Saint-Sauveur-Au-Pont, belonged during the twelfth and thirteenth century to the Abbey of Saint Andrew at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. The fiefdom was held initially by the Forcalquiers, and later by the Brancas family.
By the start of the eighteenth century, the Estieu brothers were running a pottery oven.[2]
During the revolution the commune had its own Patriotic Society, a variation on the Jacobin Club theme, created in this case soon after 1792.[3]
Population
| Historical population | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1765 | 1,003 | — |
| 1793 | 1,051 | +4.8% |
| 1800 | 972 | −7.5% |
| 1806 | 1,061 | +9.2% |
| 1821 | 1,082 | +2.0% |
| 1831 | 1,147 | +6.0% |
| 1836 | 1,183 | +3.1% |
| 1841 | 1,141 | −3.6% |
| 1846 | 1,153 | +1.1% |
| 1851 | 1,138 | −1.3% |
| 1856 | 1,198 | +5.3% |
| 1861 | 1,272 | +6.2% |
| 1866 | 1,306 | +2.7% |
| 1872 | 1,250 | −4.3% |
| 1876 | 1,152 | −7.8% |
| 1881 | 1,173 | +1.8% |
| 1886 | 1,124 | −4.2% |
| 1891 | 1,052 | −6.4% |
| 1896 | 1,045 | −0.7% |
| 1901 | 926 | −11.4% |
| 1906 | 884 | −4.5% |
| 1911 | 820 | −7.2% |
| 1921 | 770 | −6.1% |
| 1926 | 773 | +0.4% |
| 1931 | 708 | −8.4% |
| 1936 | 630 | −11.0% |
| 1946 | 630 | +0.0% |
| 1954 | 558 | −11.4% |
| 1962 | 632 | +13.3% |
| 1968 | 757 | +19.8% |
| 1975 | 832 | +9.9% |
| 1982 | 862 | +3.6% |
| 1990 | 950 | +10.2% |
| 1999 | 1,036 | +9.1% |
| 2008 | 1,208 | +16.6% |
See also
References
- ↑ Raymond Collier, Haute-Provence, pp. 18 and 24-25. See also Gallia XXV, 1967, 2, p. 386.
- ↑ Collier, p. 511.
- ↑ Patrice Alphand, "Les Sociétés populaires", La Révolution dans les Basses-Alpes, Annales de Haute-Provence, bulletin de la société scientifique et littéraire des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, no. 307, 1989, pp. 296-298
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