Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme
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Location within Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region  Thiers | |
| Coordinates: 45°51′26″N 3°32′54″E / 45.8572°N 3.5483°ECoordinates: 45°51′26″N 3°32′54″E / 45.8572°N 3.5483°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Puy-de-Dôme |
| Arrondissement | Thiers |
| Canton | Thiers |
| Intercommunality | Thiers communauté |
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| • Mayor (2012–2018) | Claude Nowotny |
| Area1 | 44.49 km2 (17.18 sq mi) |
| Population (2013)2 | 11,302 |
| • Density | 250/km2 (660/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 63430 / 63300 |
| Elevation |
283–793 m (928–2,602 ft) (avg. 450 m or 1,480 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. | |
Thiers (pronounced: [tjɛːʁ]; Auvergnat: Tièrn) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. Thiers is a French municipality situated in the department of Puy-de-Dôme in region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
It is one of the four sub-prefectures of the department with Ambert, Issoire and Riom. The district of Thiers consists of forty-three municipalities distributed between six cantons. The inhabitants are known as Thiernois or Bitords.
Thiers is the world capital of knife manufacturing, with about one hundred companies in this domain and a museum of the cutlery industry; seventy percent of knives produced in France for the pocket, the kitchen or the table are made by companies in Thiers. The know-how of the thiernois cutlers draws its origins from a continuous tradition over more than seven centuries.
The city is divided into two different parts: the low city (where we find hypermarkets) and the upper city (the medieval city). "Stretched" on more of 7km of length on a rocky spur overhanging the nearby mountains and the nearby villages, Thiers was for a long time a very tourist city thanks to its city center, very picturesque, and its cutlery industry. The city nowadays is the sixth tourist destination in Auvergne.
Evolution of the population
In 2013, the municipality counted 11,308 inhabitants. The growth of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses made in the municipality since 1793. From the 21st century, the censuses (inventories) of the municipalities of more than 10,000 inhabitants take place every year following a sample survey, unlike the other municipalities which have an actual census (inventory) every five years.
1793:11 970
1800=10 605
1806=10 743
1821=11 497
1831=09 836
1836=09 982
1841=09 981
1846=13 284
1851=13 964
1856=15 192
1861=15 902
1866=16 069
1872=16 635
1876=16 343
1881=15 333
1886=16 754
1891=16 814
1896=17 135
1901=18 325
1906=19 418
1911=19 837
1921=18 839
1926=17 859
1931=16 383
1936=16 181
1946=15 409
1954=16 243
1962=16 369
1968=16 623
1975=16 567
1982=16 018
1990=14 832
1999=13 338
2006=12 194
2008=12 045
2011=11 232
2013=11 308
A first peak of the population was reached(affected) in 1911 with 19 837 inhabitants before a reduction until go out of the Second World War and an ascent(rise) towards a new peak in 1968. From 1980s, the municipal population accuses a strong reduction...
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Economy
Thiers is famous for its knives, blades and cutlery industry. The town has a museum in the old quarter, portraying the history of knife-making. Further along the valley, the industrial heritage museum, l'Usine du May, opened in 2009. Modern factories include Forges Gorce who make blades for agricultural machinery from hedge trimmers to combine harvesters, part of McConnel Alamo group.[1]
Media links
The town was featured in François Truffaut's 1976 film Small Change. It is the birthplace of journalist Claire Chazal and actor Zinedine Soualem.
See also
International relations
The city of Thiers is twinned with the cities of
Bridgnorth, United Kingdom since 1978, county of Shropshire, West Midlands (12,000 inhabitants) and Schrobenhausen, Germany since 1986, district of High Bavaria (16,000 inhabitants).
Twin towns – Sister cities
References
- ↑ Shropshire businessman expanding French operations, Shropshire Star, 2010-11-02
- 1 2 3 4 "National Commission for Decentralised cooperation". Délégation pour l’Action Extérieure des Collectivités Territoriales (Ministère des Affaires étrangères) (in French). Retrieved 2013-12-26.
"Златоуст и Тьер - города-побратимы"
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thiers. |
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Thiers". Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 849–850.
