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Corseul
Corseul Kersaout | |
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Commune | |
 Roman ruins | |
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Corseul | |
  Corseul Show map of France  Corseul Show map of Brittany | |
| Coordinates: 48°28′57″N 2°10′08″W / 48.4825°N 2.1689°W / 48.4825; -2.1689Coordinates: 48°28′57″N 2°10′08″W / 48.4825°N 2.1689°W / 48.4825; -2.1689 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Brittany |
| Department | Côtes-d'Armor |
| Arrondissement | Dinan |
| Canton | Plancoët |
| Intercommunality | Plancoët Val d'Arguenon |
| Government | |
| • Mayor .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal} (2014–2020) | Alain Jan |
| Area 1 | 41.74 km2 (16.12 sq mi) |
| Population (2008)2 | 1,975 |
| • Density | 47/km2 (120/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 22048 /22130 |
| Elevation | 13–126 m (43–413 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Corseul (Breton: Kersaout, Gallo: Corsoeut) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.
The town was a major Roman town and contains Roman ruins. The town hall contains a small archaeological museum.[1]
Contents
1 History
2 Population
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
History
Corseul was called Fanum Martis ("Temple of Mars") in Latin and was the capital of the Gallo-Roman province of Coriosolites. It was founded in 10 BC.[2] In the 3rd and 4th centuries, like many other cities, Fanum Martis was renamed for its people, the Curiosolitae. This name change occurred as the Roman Empire weakened and paralleled a revival of the ancient Gallic gods in local religious sculptures and dedicatory inscriptions.[3]
Some 1.5 kilometres to the southeast, at Haut-Bécherel, stand the prominent remains of an extensive Roman temple sanctuary, built at the time of Nero and Vespasian.[4]
Population
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
1962 | 1,830 | — |
1968 | 1,925 | +5.2% |
1975 | 1,955 | +1.6% |
1982 | 2,022 | +3.4% |
1990 | 1,987 | −1.7% |
1999 | 1,977 | −0.5% |
2008 | 1,975 | −0.1% |
Inhabitants of Corseul are called coriosolites or curiosolites in French.
See also
- Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department
References
- INSEE
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^ H Kérébel, "Évolution d'un chef-lieu de cité au cours de la première moitié du Ier siècle: Corseul (Fanum Martis), capitale de la cité des Coriosolites" Les villes de la Gaulle lyonnaise, 1996, reports on excavations since 1984; some finds from the site are conserved in the town museum and in the Musée Archéologique at Rennes.
^ "Corseul, capitale romaine des Coriosolites" (in French). armorance.free.fr. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
^ Louis Gouipeau, "La datation archéomagnétique du temple du Haut-Bécherel à Corseul", Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest 1984.1:pp84-88.
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Corseul. |
French Ministry of Culture list for Corseul (in French)
Temple of Mars, at Haut-Bécherel to the southeast
Map of Roman Brittany
Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department  | |
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