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Aube
Normandievillage
Total population
1,247
Founded
1790
Demographic figures from INSEE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Set in Normandie, France, Aube is recorded in open geodata as a small village. The population stands at approximately 1,247. Aube maps to 48.740°, 0.545° — squarely within the temperate belt. The village belongs to the 28 administrative unit. The latitude suggests four distinct seasons with warm summers and cold winters. Additional figures on demographics, climate, geography and points of interest appear in the sections that follow, all drawn from open public datasets.
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History & geography
History
The first inhabitants of Aube were the Tricasses and Lingones with a substantial human settlement around the year 400 BC. Saints Potentian and Savinian, Greek priests from Samos, came to preach the gospel from the middle of the 3rd century. Saint Patroclus was one of the first martyrs of the new faith in the year 259. Shortly after Saint Jule and some notables of the city of Tricasses also suffered martyrdom. Nevertheless, as elsewhere, the Christian community became large enough to accommodate a bishop. Saint Amateur was the first in 340. In the year 286 the Bagaudae ravaged the land which forms Aube. Emperor Julian came to Troyes with his army and rescued it. The territory making up Aube was first attached to France in 843, following the Treaty of Verdun. Two important monasteries were founded in the department: one at Clairvaux in 1114, created by Bernard of Clairvaux, the other was the Abbey of the Paraclete near Nogent-sur-Seine, by his illustrious rival, Pierre Abélard and of which Héloïse d'Argenteuil was the first abbess. Bernard of Clairvaux was noted for his eloquence at the Council of Troyes and his preaching of the Second Crusade which had no result and whose outcome was disastrous. The reunion of Champagne with the kingdom of France was finalised in 1361. Yet people wanted absolutely the incorporation of Champagne but in 1328 King Philip VI gave the city of Bar-sur-Seine to Philippe de Croy. The inhabitants, however, ransomed him to return it to the king on the condition that it become inalienable. The decree of the National Assembly of 15 January 1790 formally established the department of Aube. Its first president was Augustin-Henri-Marie Picot and his first deputy was Louis Antoine Joseph Robin. Jacques Claude Beugnot was elected attorney-general…
Geography
The Aube department is located in the southwest side of the Grand Est region. It borders the departments of Marne in the north (about 130 km long), Haute-Marne to the east (about 100 km long), Côte-d'Or in the southeast (about 45 km long), Yonne in the southwest (about 175 km long), and Seine-et-Marne in the west (about 45 km long). Within the department regions of natural or traditional countryside can be identified as follows: * northwest quarter: Champagne crayeuse (chalky Champagne soil) * northwestern tip: the Nogentais * southwest of Troyes: the Othe region * to the south: le Chaourçois * to the northeast: the Briennois * to the east: the Barrois * between Troyes and Barrois: Champagne wetlands Aube is divided into 431 communes. The most populous commune is the prefecture Troyes. As of 2023, there are 8 communes with more than 5,000 inhabitants: {| class=wikitable ! Commune ! Population (2023) |- | Troyes | style="text-align: center;" | 62,088 |- | Romilly-sur-Seine | style="text-align: center;" | 14,959 |- | Saint-André-les-Vergers | style="text-align: center;" | 12,806 |- | La Chapelle-Saint-Luc | style="text-align: center;" | 12,648 |- | Sainte-Savine | style="text-align: center;" | 10,289 |- | Saint-Julien-les-Villas | style="text-align: center;" | 6,760 |- | Nogent-sur-Seine | style="text-align: center;" | 5,537 |- | Pont-Sainte-Marie | style="text-align: center;" | 5,249 |} All of those communes, except Romilly-sur-Seine and Nogent-sur-Seine, are part of the agglomeration of Troyes. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left;width:60%;font-size:95%;" |+ Altitude of the main towns of Aube |- ! !! Troyes !! Romilly-sur-Seine !! Bar-sur-Aube !! Nogent-sur-Seine |- | Lowest Altitude||align="center"| 100 metres ||…
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Nearby places in Normandie
- L'Aigle4.1 mi away · pop. 7,824
- Saint-Michel-Tubœuf6.6 mi away · pop. 583
- Saint-Maurice-lès-Charencey11.6 mi away · pop. 762
- Gacé12 mi away · pop. 1,786
- La Neuve-Lyre14.8 mi away · pop. 553
- Exmes16.7 mi away · pop. 308
- Aunou-sur-Orne16.9 mi away · pop. 268
- Ticheville17.3 mi away · pop. 189
- Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton17.5 mi away · pop. 7,305
- Aunay-les-Bois17.8 mi away · pop. 140
- Boitron17.9 mi away · pop. 347
- Breteuil18.1 mi away · pop. 4,287
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Official Identifiers
INSEE — French National Institute of Statistics
- INSEE code
- 61008
- Department
- 61
- Region
- 28
- Population (Wikidata)
- 1,254
geo.api.gouv.fr
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • INSEE — French national statistics, via geo.api.gouv.fr (official commune code, population, surface, department, region)
- • INSEE — French National Institute of Statistics — geo.api.gouv.fr