commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
region
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of
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...
in eastern
France
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.
It is the second-largest commune of the metropolitan
Communauté urbaine Creusot Montceau
The Communauté urbaine Creusot Montceau is the ''communauté urbaine'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the cities of Le Creusot and Montceau-les-Mines. It is located in the Saône-et-Loire department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté re ...
, which lies southwest of the city of
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlies ...
.
History
Montceau-les-Mines is a former mining city. Coal was discovered in the area in the 16th Century. A hamlet called "Le Montceau" developed from this discovery.
"Le Montceau" began to grow after the building of the Canal du Centre, built between 1783 and 1791. A business entity, "Compagnie des mines", started to extract coals in 1833.
The commune was officially established June 24, 1856. as Montceau-les-Mines, a community of 1300 inhabitants, drawn from a territory formed from the villages of Blanzy, Saint-Vallier, Saint-Berain-sous-Sanvignes, and Sanvignes-les-Mines.
A graveyard and a church were built by the principal coal company, a sign of paternalism of mining industry.
Intense social movements took place at the end of the 19th century and there at the beginning of the 20th century.
Coal made the city prosperous until 1918. During the War, the production reached 2,786,000 tons. There were about 30,000 inhabitants.
After the war, the production started to decrease and stopped in 1992. Economic hardship followed the closing of the mines. By 2017 the population has fallen to about 18,000, unemployment is 21% and many shops of the city have closed.
Population
Geography/geology
The Bourbince flows northward through the commune and crosses the town.
Exceptional preservation of
Late Carboniferous
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* LATE, an acronym which could stand for:
** Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy, a proposed form of dementia
** Local-authority trading enterprise, a New Zealand business law
** Local average treatment effect, ...
fossil biota characterizes a
Lagerstätte
A Lagerstätte (, from ''Lager'' 'storage, lair' '' Stätte'' 'place'; plural ''Lagerstätten'') is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues. These f ...
at Montceau-les-Mines.See, for example ; the site is discussed by Vincent Perrier and Sylvain Charbonnierby in "The Montceau-les-Mines lagerstätte (Late Carboniferous, France)", ''Comptes Rendus Palevol, '' 13.5:353-367.
See also
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Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department
The following is a list of the 565 communes of the Saône-et-Loire department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):twinned with:
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Żory
Żory (; german: Sohrau, szl, Żory) is a town and city county in Silesian Voivodeship, Poland with 62,462 inhabitants (2019). Previously it was in Katowice Voivodeship (1975–1998). It is located in the historic Upper Silesia region about sou ...
in
Poland
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