Bezouce
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Gard | |
| Arrondissement | Nîmes | |
| Canton | Redessan | |
| Community association | Nîmes metropolis | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 53 ' N , 4 ° 29' E | |
| height | 56-139 m | |
| surface | 12.29 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,299 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 187 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 30320 | |
| INSEE code | 30039 | |
 Mairie Bezouce |
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Bezouce (around 1146 Biducia , from 1384 Besocia ) is a municipality in France with 2299 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017), Gard department in the Occitanie region . The name may derive from either the Occitan Beçosa or the Gallic Bituscius .
Bezouce forms, together with the neighboring towns of Redessan , Lédenon , Cabrières and Saint-Gervasy, an administrative unit. It is one of 41 municipalities in the Pays Garrigues Costières . The residents call themselves Bezouçois (fem. Bezouçoises ).
history
Budenicus was a local Gaulish god from whom the southern Gaulish tribe of the Bedunicenses is said to have derived its name. A dedicatory inscription for him was discovered in Bezouce (in Gallo-Roman times Collias , province of Gallia Narbonensis ).
Bezouce was a parish of the diocese of the Archbishop of Nîmes until 1790 and since the 17th Prairial of the year XIII (June 6th 1805) a parish and branch of Marguerittes , since 1818 with a vicariate . At that time the place had 774 inhabitants, all Catholics, the schools were run by the Frères de Saint Andréol , a school order founded in 1859.
During the Huguenot Wars of the 16th century, Bezouce was alternately in the hands of the two parties to the dispute; In 1562 and 1579 the Catholic population was massacred by the Huguenots . From 4th to 7th July 1629 Louis XIII stayed . in Bezouce and received the address of allegiance from the Protestants of Nîmes.
The 11th century church of Bezouce (enlarged in 1837 and 1858) was originally built in the Romanesque style , the extensions in Gothic . On December 8, 1482 Jacques de Caulers was ordained Bishop of Nîmes in her.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 619 | 681 | 721 | 1280 | 1625 | 1950 | 2070 | 2299 |
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Web links
- Bezouce Official Website (accessed June 8, 2012)