Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Sant Pau de Tricastin (Occitan) |
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Country | France | |
Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
Department | Drôme | |
Arrondissement | Nyons | |
Canton | Le Tricastin | |
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• Mayor (2020–2026) | Jean-Michel Catelinois[1] | |
Area1 | 22.04 km2 (8.51 sq mi) | |
Population (Jan. 2018)2 | Lua error in Module:Wd at line 405: invalid escape sequence near '"^'. | |
INSEE/Postal code | 26324 / 26130 | |
Elevation | 49–290 m (161–951 ft) (avg. 111 m or 364 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. |
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ pɔl tʁwɑ ʃɑto]; Occitan: Sant Pau de Tricastin), sometimes known as St-Paul-en-Tricastin, is a commune, an administrative region, in the Drôme department in southeastern France.
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Name
The settlement is attested as Augusta Tricastinorum (1st c. AD), Trikastinoi ōn polis Noiomagos (2nd c.), Sancti Pauli vel Sancti Restituti Trigastinensi (993), in Tricastrinensi (1132), civitate Tricastrina (1136), San Paul (ca. 1180), Sanctum Paulum Tricastinensem (1338), and Sainct Pol Trois Chasteaux (1545).[2]
The toponym derives from the name of the ancient Gallic tribe that dwelled in the region, the Tricastini. The insertion of an epenthetic r that changed Tricastini to Tricastrini, which is attested by the 12th century, caused a semantic reinterpretation of the name, leading eventually to the modern French Trois-Châteaux, meaning 'three-castles' (Latin Tria-Castra).[2]
Population
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Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4] |
Sport
It was the start of stage 16 of the 2011 Tour de France, 162.5 km (101 mi) to Gap, as well as the start city for stage 13 of the 2012 Tour de France,[5] 217 km (135 mi) to Cap d'Agde.
Twin towns — sister cities
Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux is twinned with:
See also
- Communes of the Drôme department
- Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux Cathedral
- Tricastin
- Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant
References
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- ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, EHESS. Script error: No such module "In lang".
- ↑ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
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