Tauriac, Lot
Tauriac | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Tauriac | |
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| Coordinates: 44°54′26″N 1°46′36″E / 44.9072°N 1.7767°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Occitania |
| Department | Lot |
| Arrondissement | Figeac |
| Canton | Cère et Ségala |
| Intercommunality | Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Catherine Jauzac[1] |
Area 1 | 8.23 km2 (3.18 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 464 |
| • Density | 56/km2 (150/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 46313 /46130 |
| Elevation | 114–169 m (374–554 ft) (avg. 124 m or 407 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Tauriac (French pronunciation: [toʁjak]) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.
Toponymy
The toponym Tauriac, of Gallo-Roman origin, is based on an anthroponym Taurius or Torius. The ending -ac comes from the Gallic suffix -acon (itself from the common Celtic *-āko-), often Latinized as -acum in texts. This is the domain of Taurius.[3]
Local culture and heritage
Places and monuments
- Église Saint-Martial de Tauriac, from the sixteenth century. The building was classified as a historical monument in 1987.[4] Several objects are referenced in the Palissy database. The church was built in the first half of the sixteenth century, as evidenced by the date 1549 inscribed on a keystone. The first mention of a church is a deed of 930 donating the church to the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne by Adémar, viscount of the Échelles.[5] Following a request in 1281 by the abbot of Dalon to found a bastide in this place, a second church was built at the end of the thirteenth century at the current site in the bastide.
Notable personalities
- Maria Valtat, née Layna, (1895-1977), member of the PCF, and of the FTPF, a resistance fighter, creator and organizer of the National Front of the Resistance in Avalonnais.
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
- ^ Bazalgues, Gaston (June 2002). À la découverte des noms de lieux du Quercy: Toponymie lotoise (Éditions de la Bouriane et du Quercy ed.). Gourdon. p. 124. ISBN 2-910540-16-2.
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- ^ Deloche, Maximin (1859). Cartulaire de Beaulieu (en Limousin): charte XLIX (Imprimerie Impériale ed.). Paris. p. 90.
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