Cantó de Ceret respecte els Pirineus Orientals

The Canton of Céret is a French former canton of

Pyrénées-Orientales Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean ...

department, in

Languedoc-Roussillon Languedoc-Roussillon (; oc, Lengadòc-Rosselhon ; ca, Llenguadoc-Rosselló) is a former administrative region of France. On 1 January 2016, it joined with the region of Midi-Pyrénées to become Occitania. It comprised five departments, and b ...

. It had 22,167 inhabitants (2012).Populations légales 2012: 66 Pyrénées-Orientales
INSEE It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.

History

The canton of Céret was created in 1790 as part of the district of Céret, and then of the

arrondissement of Céret The arrondissement of Céret is an arrondissement of France in the Pyrénées-Orientales department ( Northern Catalonia) in the Occitanie region. It has 64 communes. Its population is 129,464 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes ...

.Jean-Pierre Pélissier, Paroisses et communes de France : dictionnaire d'histoire administrative et démographique, vol. 66 : Pyrénées-Orientales, Paris, CNRS, 1986, 378 p. () The commune of

Les Cluses Les Cluses () is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Localisation Les Cluses is located in the canton of Vallespir-Albères and in the arrondissement of Céret. Population See also *Commu ...

was separated from the

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and attached to the canton of Céret in 1801. Following various incidents the elections of 1858 for the canton of Céret were cancelled in 1859 and a new councillor was then elected. Fabricio Cardenas
Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, ''Annulation des élections de 1858 du canton de Céret''
23 march 2014 The commune of

L'Albère L'Albère ( ca, L'Albera) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Localisation L'Albère is located in the canton of Vallespir-Albères and in the arrondissement of Céret. Toponymy The na ...

was separated from the

canton of Argelès-sur-Mer The Canton of Argelès-sur-Mer is a French former canton of Pyrénées-Orientales Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, S ...

and attached to the canton of Céret in 1947.

Composition

The canton comprised the following

communes An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, religious, ...

: *

Céret Céret (; ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It is the capital of the historic Catalan comarca of Vallespir. Geography The town lies in the foothills of the Pyrénées mountains, in southern France. I ...

* Banyuls-dels-Aspres * Le Boulou * Calmeilles *

* Maureillas-las-Illas * Montauriol *

Oms OMS or Oms may refer to: Education * Oakland Middle School, Murfreesboro, Tennessee * O'Banion Middle School, Garland, Texas * Odle Middle School, Bellevue, Washington * Orefield Middle School, Orefield, Pennsylvania * Open Mind School, Redwood ...

Le Perthus Le Perthus (, ca, El Pertús, ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Natives of Le Pertus are called ''Perthusiens'' and, in 2016, there were 586 inhabitants. Le Perthus is also one of French territories on ...

Reynès Reynès (; ca, Reiners) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Reynès is in the canton of Le Canigou and in the arrondissement of Céret. Population Talc Reynès was home to a very prod ...

Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts (; oc, Sant Joan de Pladecorts) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government ...

* Taillet * Vivès

References

Céret Ceret 2015 disestablishments in France States and territories disestablished in 2015 {{PyrénéesOrientales-geo-stub