Maillé (Indre-et-Loire)
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| region | Center-Val de Loire | |
| Department | Indre-et-Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Quinone | |
| Canton | Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine | |
| Community association | Touraine Val de Vienne | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 3 ' N , 0 ° 35' E | |
| height | 92-129 m | |
| surface | 15.67 km 2 | |
| Residents | 578 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 37 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 37800 | |
| INSEE code | 37142 | |
| Website | http://www.maille.fr/ | |
Maillé is a French municipality with 578 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Indre-et-Loire in the region of Center-Val de Loire ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Chinon and the canton of Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine . The inhabitants are called Maillaciens .
geography
Maillé is about 40 kilometers south-southwest of Tours . Neighboring municipalities of Maillé are Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine in the north, Draché in the east and northeast, La Celle-Saint-Avant in the south and southeast, Nouâtre in the west and southwest and Pouzay in the northwest.
The A10 autoroute runs through the municipality .
history
On August 25, 1944, German soldiers of the 17th Panzer Grenadier Division Götz von Berlichingen committed a war crime against the local population. In the Maillé massacre , 124 of the villagers, around a third of whom were children under the age of 12, were murdered.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2013 |
| Residents | 602 | 587 | 518 | 580 | 594 | 653 | 619 | 594 |
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literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes d'Indre-et-Loire. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-115-5 , pp. 1222-1225.
