Corseul (French pronunciation: [kɔʁsœl]; Breton: Kersaout; Gallo: Corsoeut) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.
Corseul
Kersaout | |
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Commune | |
Location of Corseul | |
Corseul Corseul | |
Coordinates: 48°28′57″N 2°10′08″W | |
Country | France |
Region | Brittany |
Department | Côtes-d'Armor |
Arrondissement | Dinan |
Canton | Plancoët |
Intercommunality | Dinan Agglomération |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Alain Jan[1] |
Area 1 | 41.74 km2 (16.12 sq mi) |
Population | 2,197 |
• Density | 53/km2 (140/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. |
The town was a major Roman town and contains Roman ruins. The town hall contains a small archaeological museum.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
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.[6]
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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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.
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