Vesoul
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Location within Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region
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| Coordinates: 47°37′23″N 6°09′21″E / 47.6231°N 06.1558°ECoordinates: 47°37′23″N 6°09′21″E / 47.6231°N 06.1558°E | |||||||||
| Country | France | ||||||||
| Region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | ||||||||
| Department | Haute-Saône | ||||||||
| Arrondissement | Vesoul | ||||||||
| Canton | Canton of Vesoul-Est and Canton of Vesoul-Ouest | ||||||||
| Intercommunality | Urban community of Vesoul | ||||||||
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| • Mayor (2012-2014) | Alain Chrétien | ||||||||
| Area1 | 9.07 km2 (3.50 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population (2010)2 | 19,404 | ||||||||
| • Density | 2,100/km2 (5,500/sq mi) | ||||||||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||||||||
| INSEE/Postal code | 70550 / 70000 | ||||||||
| Elevation | 213–375 m (699–1,230 ft) (avg. 220 m or 720 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. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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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.
Vesoul (French pronunciation: [vəzul]) is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté located in eastern France.
It is the most populated municipality of the department with 15,920 inhabitants in 2009, and is the seventh largest city in Franche-Comté. The same year, the Urban community of Vesoul which covers 19 municipalities together had 34,055 inhabitants while the Urban area of Vesoul which includes 78 municipalities, had 59,244 inhabitants. Its urban area is the fifth largest Franche-Comté. Its inhabitants are known in French as Vésuliens. Nicknamed the "Nice of the East", the reputation of Vesoul-based primarily on the song "Vesoul" by Jacques Brel and the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema. Its 16,000 inhabitants, account Vesoul 2000 students and 8000 licensed sport. The city has received many labels and names that reflect the investigation brings to life Vesoul common.
Built on top of the hill de la Motte, in the first millennium, the old medieval town of Castrum Vesulium, the city is gradually presented as European commercial and economic center with many traders and exchangers and European Jews. At the end of the Middle Ages, the city experienced a period of strong difficulties as plagues, epidemics, destruction ...
Main urban center of the department, Vesoul is also the capital of the logistics industry with the PSA Vesoul Plant and the seat of several institutions such as the Regional Centre for Restoration of Works of Art.
The town is the capital of the department.
Vesoul is first mentioned in a document dated 899. That document speaks about an elevation with a fortified watchtower. The document speaks about "Castrum Vesulium". Castrum is a fortification, and "Vesulium" has the syllable ves which meant hill or mountain in a language that was spoken before the Celts. Today, there is a castle that forms the centre of the city. The first houses were built inside the walls of the castle. Newcomers who found no place settled outside the city walls, on the flanks of the hill. Growing wine was popular. In 1814, after the fall of the empire, a buffer state was created, with Vesoul as capital. The principality was that of Free County, of the Vosges and of Porrentruy.
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