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Authie (French: [oti] (listen)) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

Authie
Commune
Authie Town Hall
Location of Authie
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Coordinates: 49°12′24″N 0°25′50″W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Caen
Canton	Caen-2
Intercommunality	CU Caen Mer
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Olivier Simar
Area 1	3.21 km2 (1.24 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[1]	1,696
• Density	530/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14030 /14280
Elevation	60–73 m (197–240 ft) (avg. 65 m or 213 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Althavillais or Althavillaises.[2]

The commune has been awarded one flower by the National Council of Towns and Villages in Bloom in the Competition of cities and villages in Bloom.[3]

Geography

Authie is located some 6 km (4 mi) north-west of the centre of Caen. Access to the commune is by road D220 from Villons-les-Buissons in the north-east which passes through the centre of the commune and the village and continues to Carpiquet in the south. The D220C also goes south-east from the village to the urban area of Caen. There are also the hamlets of Hameau de Saint-Louet, Franqueville, Fermie du Calvaire, and Cussy in the commune. Apart from the large residential area the commune is entirely farmland.[4]

Toponymy

The name of the town is attested in the forms Alteium in 1227 and Auteya in 1264.[5]

Albert Dauzat matched Authie with Authie in Somme department (Altegiam 830) on the coastal river Authie (Alteia 723) and considers it primarily as a hydronym but does not provide any further explanation.[6]

According to René Lepelley this toponym is based on the pre-Celtic element alt in an unknown sense and is close to Authou in Pont-Authou.[7]

François de Beaurepaire sees a Gallic (Celtic) element in the alt in Authou.[8]

The Gallic term Attegia was recognized by Xavier Delamarre in Atheist-type names - e.g. Athis in the sense of "cabin or hut".[9]

This analyses to ad- (pre-verb) and tegia meaning "house" (cf. Old Irish teg, old Welsh tig, Welsh Ty, Old Breton tig, and Breton ti all meaning "house").[10]

It is likely that Authie contains the same element tegia preceded by another prefix. From a phonetic point of view there is a palatalization of the intervocalic consonant where [g] becomes [j] and then an Amuïssement or attenuation of [j]>[∅], a recurrent phenomenon in phonetics.

The same author explains that Arthies (Artegiae 680) may come from *Are-tegia which is a possible solution for Authie, knowing that [r] regularly becomes [l] before a consonant.

The name Altavilla is either a medieval romanization of a place named Hauteville as in Hauteville in Manche department and therefore does not relate to Authie. It may be a scribal error for *Alteia Villa or *Villa Alteia which mentions a villa, i.e. a rural area in medieval Latin, in a place called Alteia which is Authie.

History

In 1832 Authie (466 inhabitants in 1831) absorbed Saint-Louet-près-Authie (9 people)[11] in the west of its territory.

The commune was liberated on 8 June 1944 but was largely destroyed in the bombing.

Administration

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (April 2021)

List of Successive Mayors[12]

From	To	Name
1983	2020	Joël Pizy
2020	2026	Olivier Simar

Twinning

Authie has twinning associations with:[13]

• North Baddesley (United Kingdom) since 1993.

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 1,595 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 650 —     1800 382 −7.31% 1806 565 +6.74% 1821 571 +0.07% 1831 466 −2.01% 1836 625 +6.05% 1841 623 −0.06% 1846 630 +0.22% 1851 593 −1.20% 1856 567 −0.89% 1861 500 −2.48% 1866 453 −1.95% 1872 434 −0.71% 1876 425 −0.52% 1881 369 −2.79% 1886 382 +0.69% 1891 394 +0.62% 1896 358 −1.90%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 361 +0.17% 1906 313 −2.81% 1911 262 −3.49% 1921 266 +0.15% 1926 294 +2.02% 1931 302 +0.54% 1936 348 +2.88% 1946 202 −5.29% 1954 348 +7.04% 1962 414 +2.19% 1968 514 +3.67% 1975 571 +1.51% 1982 645 +1.76% 1990 780 +2.40% 1999 983 +2.60% 2007 1,349 +4.04% 2012 1,487 +1.97% 2017 1,595 +1.41%
Source: EHESS[14] and INSEE[15]

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has one site that is registered as an historical monument:

• An Ornamental Garden in the Château of Authie (18th century)[16]
• The Monument to the Canadians dedicated to the victims of the taking of the village in 1944

Religious heritage

The commune has two religious buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:

• The Church of Saint Vigor (12th century)[17]
• A Cemetery Cross (18th century)[18]

The Church contains one item that is registered as an historical object:

• A Bronze Bell (1704)[19]

• 
  Saint Vigor church
• 
  Saint-Vigor Portal
• 
  Detail on the Portal
• 
  A detail on the church
• 
  The Vault in the church
• 
  The Nave of the church
• 
  The Cemetery Cross

See also

• Communes of the Calvados department

External links

• Authie on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Authie on the 1750 Cassini Map

References

На других языках

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[de] Authie (Calvados)

Authie ist eine französische Gemeinde mit 1.696 Einwohnern (Stand: 1. Januar 2019) im Département Calvados in der Region Normandie. Die Gemeinde gehört zum Arrondissement Caen und zum Kanton Caen-2. Die Einwohner nennen sich Althavillais.

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- [en] Authie, Calvados

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[ru] Оти (Кальвадос)

Оти́ (фр. Authie) — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Нижняя Нормандия. Департамент коммуны — Кальвадос. Входит в состав кантона Кан 2-й кантон. Округ коммуны — Кан.

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