Canton of Turriers
| Former Canton of Turriers |
|
|---|---|
| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur |
| Department | Alpes-de-Haute-Provence |
| Arrondissement | Forcalquier |
| main place | Turriers |
| Dissolution date | March 29, 2015 |
| Residents | 1,265 (Jan. 1, 2012) |
| Population density | 6 inhabitants / km² |
| surface | 226.22 km² |
| Communities | 7th |
| INSEE code | 0428 |
The Canton Turriers was 2015 a French canton in the Arrondissement Forcalquier in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . It comprised seven parishes, its main town (French: chef-lieu ) was Turriers . The nationwide changes in the composition of the cantons resulted in its dissolution in March 2015. His last representative in the conseil général des Départements was Jean Philip from 2001 to 2015.
Turriers is the place of origin of Pierre Franco de Turriers († around 1580), a well-known surgeon and urologist of the 16th century, after whom the Sectio seu methodus franconiana was named in surgery , a method of bladder incision in which the bladder is above the pubic symphysis is opened.
Communities
| local community | Population (as of 2017) |
Code postal | Code Insee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayons | 183 | 04250 | 04023 |
| Bellaffaire | 144 | 04250 | 04026 |
| Faucon-du-Caire | 53 | 04250 | 04085 |
| Gigors | 60 | 04250 | 04093 |
| Piégut | 186 | 05130 | 04150 |
| Turriers | 318 | 04250 | 04222 |
| Venterol | 241 | 05130 | 04234 |