Salses-le-Château
Salses-le-Château | |
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 Entrance of the Fort de Salses | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
Location of Salses-le-Château  | |
  Salses-le-Château  Salses-le-Château | |
| Coordinates: 42°50′01″N 2°55′11″E / 42.8336°N 2.9197°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Occitania |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales |
| Arrondissement | Perpignan |
| Canton | La Vallée de l'Agly |
| Intercommunality | Corbières Salanque Méditerranée |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Jean-Jacques Lopez[1] |
Area 1 | 71.28 km2 (27.52 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 3,752 |
| • Density | 53/km2 (140/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 66190 /66600 |
| Elevation | 0–354 m (0–1,161 ft) (avg. 12 m or 39 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Salses-le-Château (French pronunciation: [sals lə ʃato] ; Catalan: Salses) or just Salses is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.[3] It is located north of the city of Perpignan.
Geography
[edit]Salses-le-Château is located in the canton of La Vallée de l'Agly and in the arrondissement of Perpignan.
Government and politics
[edit]Mayors
[edit]| Mayor[4] | Term start | Term end |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Pams | 1790 | 1792 |
| Jean Vaquer | 1792 | 1792 |
| Thomas Pams | 1792 | 1796 |
| Marc Joseph Barthe | 1796 | 1797 |
| Jean Claret | 1797 | 1799 |
| Jean-Baptiste Lajou | 1799 | 1802 |
| Joseph Pams | 1802 | 1803 |
| Raphaël Vaquer | 1803 | 1808 |
| Bonaventure Vidal | 1808 | 1811 |
| Jacques Vidal | 1811 | 1812 |
| Joseph Pams | 1812 | 1814 |
| Marc Barthe | 1814[5] | 1830 |
| Jean Vidal-Estrade | 1830 | 1843 |
| Alexandre Barthe | 1843 | 1848 |
| Honoré Trilles | 1848 | 1848 |
| Joseph Castell | 1848 | 1850 |
| Joseph Bertrand | 1850 | 1851 |
| Jean Vidal-Estrade | 1851 | 1851 |
| Gaspard Daudiès | 1851 | 1855 |
| François Castell-Ayrolles | 1855 | 1858 |
| André Baron | 1858 | 1861 |
| Bonaventure Vidal-Angles | 1861 | 1870 |
| Joseph Castell | 1870 | 1871 |
| Bonaventure Vidal-Angles | 1871 | 1876 |
| Joseph Lanes-Claret | 1876 | 1877 |
| Laurent Calmon | 1877 | 1878 |
| Adolphe Cambriels | 1878 | 1878 |
| Jean Baron-Castany | 1878 | 1896 |
| Frédéric Parazols | 1896 | 1900 |
| Ernest Castell-Forner | 1900 | 1905 |
| Paul Crouzet | 1905 | 1906 |
| François Montagne | 1906 | 1914 |
| François Carrère | 1914 | 1917 |
| François Montagne | 1917 | 1919 |
| Fernand Brégoulat | 1919 | 1941 |
| Jean Tardiu | 1941 | 1942 |
| Alphonse Barrau | 1942 | 1944 |
| Jean Torrent | 1944 | 1947 |
| Arthur Conte | 1947 | 1972 |
| René Comes | 1972 | 1989 |
| Marie-Claude Grégoire | 1989 | 1995 |
| Sylvain Dagues | 1995 | 2001 |
| Marie-Claude Grégoire | 2001 | 2008 |
| Jean-Jacques Lopez | 2008 |
Population
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| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 2,009 | — |
| 1975 | 2,053 | +0.31% |
| 1982 | 2,098 | +0.31% |
| 1990 | 2,422 | +1.81% |
| 1999 | 2,513 | +0.41% |
| 2007 | 2,827 | +1.48% |
| 2012 | 3,227 | +2.68% |
| 2017 | 3,501 | +1.64% |
| Source: INSEE[6] | ||
Sites of interest
[edit]- Fort de Salses
- The Gate of the Catalan Countries is located in Salses.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ INSEE commune file
- ^ "Maires GenWeb". francegenweb.org. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ Re-appointed as mayor during the Hundred Days in 1815, (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Salses, le 31 mai 1815 , 10 February 2014
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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