Céreste
Geography
The river Calavon forms the commune's northern and northwestern borders.
History
A Gallo-Roman period settlement was established in the quarter of today's Saint-Sauveur priory, possibly as a crossing control point for the river. Surviving relics of the Roman period include a potters' oven, an ancient tomb and Sarcophagi at Saint-Sauveur.
The Priory of Carluc was founded in the eleventh century. Another priory, that of Saint-Sauveur-Au-Pont, belonged during the twelfth and thirteenth century to the Abbey of Saint Andrew at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. The fiefdom was held initially by the Forcalquiers, and later by the Brancas family.
By the start of the eighteenth century, the Estieu brothers were running a pottery oven.
During the French Revolution the commune had its own Patriotic Society, a variation on the Jacobin Club theme, created in this case soon after 1792.
Population
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
---|---|---|
1968 | 757 | — |
1975 | 832 | +1.36% |
1982 | 862 | +0.51% |
1990 | 950 | +1.22% |
1999 | 1,036 | +0.97% |
2009 | 1,220 | +1.65% |
2014 | 1,194 | −0.43% |
2020 | 1,198 | +0.06% |
Source: INSEE |
See also
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ Décret No. 2023-959 du 18 octobre 2023 portant changement du nom de communes
- ^ Raymond Collier, Haute-Provence, pp. 18 and 24-25. See also Gallia XXV, 1967, 2, p. 386.
- ^ Collier, p. 511.
- ^ Patrice Alphand, "Les Sociétés populaires", La Révolution dans les Basses-Alpes, Annales de Haute-Provence, bulletin de la société scientifique et littéraire des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, no. 307, 1989, pp. 296-298
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE