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Puy-de-Dôme
Puy-de-Dôme (; or ''lo Puèi Domat'') is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in the centre of France. In 2021, it had a population of 662,285.Legal populations 2021: 63 Puy-de-Dôme INSEE. Retrieved 31 March 2024. Its prefecture is Clermont-Ferrand and subprefectures are Ambert, Issoire, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of The Puy-de-Dôme Department
The following is a list of the 463 communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department of France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan .... Intercommunalities The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Périmètre des groupements en 2025 BANATIC. Accessed 28 May 2025. * Clermont Auvergne Métropole *CA Agglo Pays d'Issoire * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puy-de-Dôme General Council
Puy-de-Dôme (; or ''lo Puèi Domat'') is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in the centre of France. In 2021, it had a population of 662,285.Legal populations 2021: 63 Puy-de-Dôme INSEE. Retrieved 31 March 2024. Its is and subprefectures are Ambert, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puy De Dôme
Puy de Dôme (, ) is a lava dome and one of the youngest volcanoes in the region of Massif Central in central France. This chain of volcanoes including numerous cinder cones, lava domes and maars is far from the edge of any tectonic plate. Puy de Dôme was created by a Peléan eruption, some 10,700 years ago. It is approximately from Clermont-Ferrand. The Puy-de-Dôme is named after the volcano. History In pre-Christian Europe, Puy de Dôme was an assembly place for spiritual ceremonies. Temples were built at the summit, including a Gallo-Roman temple of Mercury, the ruins of which were discovered in 1872. In 1648, , at the urging of his brother-in-law Blaise Pascal, confirmed Evangelista Torricelli's theory that barometric observations were caused by the weight of air by measuring the height of a column of mercury at three elevations on Puy de Dôme. In 1875, a physics laboratory was built at the summit. Since 1956, a TDF () antenna is also located there. On th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissements Of The Puy-de-Dôme Department
The 5 arrondissements of the Puy-de-Dôme department are: # Arrondissement of Ambert, (subprefecture: Ambert) with 58 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 27,571 in 2021. # Arrondissement of Clermont-Ferrand, (prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department: Clermont-Ferrand) with 74 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 362,578 in 2021. # Arrondissement of Issoire, (subprefecture: Issoire) with 134 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 78,742 in 2021. # Arrondissement of Riom, (subprefecture: Riom) with 155 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 137,149 in 2021. # Arrondissement of Thiers The arrondissement of Thiers is an arrondissement of France in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has 44 communes. Its population is 56,245 (2021), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissemen ..., (subprefecture: Thiers) with 44 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 56,245 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand (, , ; or simply ; ) is a city and Communes of France, commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions of France, region, with a population of 147,284 (2020). Its metropolitan area () had 504,157 inhabitants at the 2018 census.Comparateur de territoire: Aire d'attraction des villes 2020 de Clermont-Ferrand (022), Unité urbaine 2020 de Clermont-Ferrand (63701), Commune de Clermont-Ferrand (63113) INSEE It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture (capital) of the Puy-de-Dôme departments of France, département. Olivier Bianchi is its current List of mayors of Clermont-Ferrand, mayor. Clermont-Ferrand sits on the plai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme
Thiers (; Auvergnat: ''Tièrn'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Puy-de-Dôme Departments of France, department of Auvergne (region), Auvergne in central France. With Ambert, Issoire and Riom, it is one of the department's four sub-prefectures. The district of Thiers consists of forty-three municipalities in six Canton (country subdivision), cantons. Its inhabitants are known as Thiernois or Bitords. Thiers is a major historical centre of knife manufacturing, with about one hundred companies and a cutlery museum; seventy percent of French Pocketknife, pocketknives, Kitchen knife, kitchen and Table knife, table knives are manufactured in Thiers. The knowledge and craft of the Thiernois cutlers are over seven centuries old, and many of the old watermills that were used to manufacture Thiernois knives can still be seen in the Vallée des Rouets. The city extends over on a rocky spur overhanging the nearby mountains and the villages. It is divided into two sections: the lowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambert
Ambert (; Auvergnat: ''Embèrt'') is a Communes of France, commune in the Puy-de-Dôme Departments of France, department in Auvergne (region), Auvergne in central France. Administration Ambert is the seat of the canton of Ambert and the arrondissement of Ambert. It is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the department. The ''arrondissements of France, arrondissement'' consists of eight cantons of France, cantons (before March 2015). Geography Ambert lies on the river Dore (river), Dore, a tributary of the Allier (river), Allier. Population Sights Ambert is famous for its fourme d'Ambert cheese - "Fourme d'Ambert", its paper mills - "Le moulin Richard de Bas" - (the first edition of Denis Diderot, Diderot's ''Encyclopédie'' was printed on paper made in Ambert) and its circular town market hall - "La Mairie" - (popularized by Jules Romains in his novel ''Les copains''). The Agrivap Chemin de Fer Touristique operates out of Ambert. There is a steam engine that makes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auvergnat (language)
(; ) or (endonym: ) is a northern dialect of Occitan spoken in central and southern France, in particular in the former administrative region of Auvergne. Currently, research shows that there is not really a true Auvergnat dialect but rather a vast northern Occitan linguistic area. The word "Auvergnat" is above all a local historiographical creation. According to linguist Jean Roux, "It is by simplification that we use this term, because in no case Auvergnat can be considered as an autonomous linguistic entity". With around 80,000 speakers in the Auvergne region at the beginning of the 21st century, it is considered to be severely endangered. Classification Auvergnat falls under the following categories and subcategories: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Occitan. History Several troubadours were from the Auvergne, including Castelloza, Dalfi d'Alvernhe, the Monje de Montaudon, the Vesques de Clarmon, Peire d'Alvernhe, Peire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantons Of The Puy-de-Dôme Department
The following is a list of the 31 cantons of the Puy-de-Dôme department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015: * Aigueperse * Ambert * Aubière * Beaumont * Billom * Brassac-les-Mines * Cébazat * Chamalières * Châtel-Guyon * Clermont-Ferrand-1 * Clermont-Ferrand-2 * Clermont-Ferrand-3 * Clermont-Ferrand-4 * Clermont-Ferrand-5 * Clermont-Ferrand-6 * Cournon-d'Auvergne * Gerzat * Issoire * Lezoux * Maringues * Les Martres-de-Veyre * Les Monts du Livradois * Orcines * Pont-du-Château * Riom * Saint-Éloy-les-Mines Saint-Éloy-les-Mines (; Auvergnat: ''Sant Alòi de las Minas'') is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. Geography The river Bouble flows north-northeastward through the commune. Population See also *Commun ... * Saint-Georges-de-Mons * Saint-Ours * Le Sancy * Thiers * Vic-le-Comte References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cantons of the Puy-de-Dome department [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riom
Riom (; Auvergnat ''Riam'') is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. History Until the French Revolution, Riom was the capital of the province of Auvergne, and the seat of the dukes of Auvergne. The city was of Gaulish origin, the Roman ''Ricomagus''. In the intensely feudalized Auvergne of the 10th century, the town grew up around the collegiate Church of Saint Amabilis (Saint Amable), the local saint, who was the object of pilgrimages. In the 14th century the city benefitted from the patronage of Jean, duc de Berry, who rebuilt the Ducal Palace and the Saint-Chapelle. In 1531, Riom and Auvergne reverted to the Crown of France. In 1942, Riom was the site of the Vichy government's abortive war-guilt trials, called Riom Trials. Population Sights In 1985 Riom received the French classification of ''Ville d'Art et d'Histoire'' recognizing its sixteen classified historical monuments as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issoire
Issoire (; Auvergnat: ''Issoire'', ''Ussoire'') is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. Geography Issoire is located on the river Couze, near its confluence with the Allier, SSE of Clermont-Ferrand on the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée railway to Nîmes. Issoire is situated in one of the fertile plains of the Petites Limagnes—basins that follow the Allier from its source in the Massif Central to the Grande Limagne north of Clermont-Ferrand and on to the Loire. Climate On average, Issoire experiences 67.6 days per year with a minimum temperature below , 2.1 days per year with a minimum temperature below , 5.8 days per year with a maximum temperature below , and 30.3 days per year with a maximum temperature above . The record high temperature was on 7 July 2015, while the record low temperature was on 30 January 2005. History Issoire (''Iciodurum'') is said to have been founded by the Arverni, and in Roman times rose to some reputation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Presidents Of Departmental Councils (France)
In France, the President of the Departmental Council ( French: ''Président du Conseil départemental'') is the locally elected head of the departmental council, the assembly governing a department in France. The position is elected by the departmental councillors from among their number. If there is a tie, the councillor senior of age is elected. As per Articles L1111-1 to L7331-3 of the General code of local and regional authorities, the responsibilities of the President of the Departmental Council include: * Chairing the departmental authorities * Preparing and implementing the council's decisions * Collection of tax revenues * Representing the department in legal cases History In 1833, a law was enacted that gave each canton (subdivision of a department) representation of a councillor (''Conseiller général''). As a result of the decentralisation of government ( Deferre law), the election criteria were redefined in 1982 and the President of the Departmental Council took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
