Communauté d'agglomération Valence Romans Agglo is the ''
communauté d'agglomération
An agglomeration community (, ) is a consortium of communes in France, communes (municipality, municipalities) in France, created as a government structure by the Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Chevènement Law of 1999. It is one of four forms of co ...
'', an
intercommunal structure, centred on the
cities
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...
of
Valence and
Romans-sur-Isère
Romans-sur-Isère (; ; Old Occitan: ''Romans'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Drôme Departments of France, department in southeastern France.
Geography
Romans-sur-Isère is located on the Isère (river), Isère, northeast of Valence, ...
. It is located in the
Drôme
Drôme (; Occitan: ''Droma''; Arpitan: ''Drôma'') is the southernmost department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. Named after the river Drôme, it had a population of 516,762 as of 2019. department, in the
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (; AURA) or ; or ; . is a Regions of France, region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes. The new region came into e ...
region
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, southeastern
France
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. It was created in January 2017 by the merger of the former Communauté d'agglomération Valence-Romans Sud Rhône-Alpes and the Communauté de communes de la Raye.
Arrêté préfectoral
, 14 November 2016, p 89-93 Its seat is in Valence.[CA Valence Romans Agglo (N° SIREN : 200068781)]
BANATIC, accessed 11 November 2024. Its area is 940.5 km2. Its population was 223,826 in 2019, of which 64,749 in Valence and 33,098 in Romans-sur-Isère.[Comparateur de territoire]
INSEE, accessed 24 November 2022.
Composition
The communauté d'agglomération consists of the following 54 communes:Bourg-lès-Valence
Bourg-lès-Valence (; ) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France. It is a suburb of Valence. The archaeologist and Hellenist Fernand Courby (1878–1932) was born in Bourg-lès-Valence.
In 2014–2019, Bourg-lès-Valence ...
# Chabeuil
# Le Chalon
# Charpey
# Châteaudouble
# Châteauneuf-sur-Isère
# Châtillon-Saint-Jean
# Chatuzange-le-Goubet
# Clérieux
# Combovin
# Crépol
# Étoile-sur-Rhône
# Eymeux
# Génissieux
# Geyssans
# Granges-les-Beaumont
# Hostun
# Jaillans
# Malissard
#Marches
In medieval Europe, a march or mark was, in broad terms, any kind of borderland, as opposed to a state's "heartland". More specifically, a march was a border between realms or a neutral buffer zone under joint control of two states in which diffe ...
# Montéléger
# Montélier
# Montmeyran
# Montmiral
# Montvendre
# Mours-Saint-Eusèbe
# Ourches
# Parnans
# Peyrins
# Peyrus
# Portes-lès-Valence
# Rochefort-Samson
#Romans-sur-Isère
Romans-sur-Isère (; ; Old Occitan: ''Romans'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Drôme Departments of France, department in southeastern France.
Geography
Romans-sur-Isère is located on the Isère (river), Isère, northeast of Valence, ...
# Saint-Bardoux
# Saint-Christophe-et-le-Laris
# Saint-Laurent-d'Onay
# Saint-Marcel-lès-Valence
#Saint-Michel-sur-Savasse
Saint-Michel-sur-Savasse (; ) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Drôme department
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune o ...
# Saint-Paul-lès-Romans
# Saint-Vincent-la-Commanderie
# Triors
# Upie
# Valence
# Valherbasse
References
Agglomeration communities in France
Intercommunalities of Drôme
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