Orcinas

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Orcinas
Orcinas (France)
Orcinas
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Drôme
Arrondissement Nyons
Canton Dieulefit
Community association Dieulefit-Bourdeaux
Coordinates 44 ° 33 '  N , 5 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 33 '  N , 5 ° 8'  E
height 456-802 m
surface 5.27 km 2
Residents 38 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 7 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 26220
INSEE code 26222

Mairie Orcinas

Orcinas is a French municipality with 38 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Drôme in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes ; it belongs to the canton of Dieulefit in the arrondissement of Nyons .

geography

Orcinas is located at an average altitude of 612 meters above sea ​​level on the southern edge of the Drôme department, 12 kilometers by car from Dieulefit and 37 kilometers east of Montélimar . The neighboring communities are Comps , Vesc , Bourdeaux and Crupies .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2016
Residents 41 44 36 34 32 28 28 38
source

history

In the 8th century as villa Orsiano , mentioned in 1507 as orcinassium , the place name is likely to be derived from the Latin ursinus , bear. The inhabitants are called Orcinassois .

Originally a fief of the Comtes de Valentinois , it fell to the Lords of Mirabel-en-Diois in 1342 and to Jean de Clion in 1541 . In 1640 it was owned by the Lattier family .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orcinas on the Insee website
  2. ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France. Geneva 1998, ISBN 2-600-02897-8 , volume 1. p. 602.
  3. ↑ Société d'archéologie et de statistique de la Drôme: Bulletin d'archéologie et de de statistique de la Drôme, Volume 6. Valence 1871.
  4. ^ MA Lacroix: Inventaire sommaire des Archive départementales. Drome. Valence 1865, p. 25

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