Orly
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Val-de-Marne | |
| Arrondissement | L'Haÿ-les-Roses | |
| Canton | Orly (main town) | |
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Métropole du Grand Paris and Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 45 ' N , 2 ° 24' E | |
| height | 30-89 m | |
| surface | 6.69 km 2 | |
| Residents | 23,801 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 3,558 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 94310 | |
| INSEE code | 94054 | |
| Website | www.ville-orly.fr | |
 The tower of Paris-Orly airport |
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Orly is a French city with 23,801 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) south of Paris in the Val-de-Marne department . It is best known for its Paris-Orly airport .
geography
Orly is located within the Unité urbaine of Paris about 15 kilometers south of the city center on the Seine .
In the course of the growth of the community in the 20th century, a number of formerly independent neighborhoods were incorporated. Today's neighboring municipalities of Orly are the largely similarly sized municipalities of Thiais , Choisy-le-Roi , Villeneuve-le-Roi , Villeneuve-Saint-Georges and Paray-Vieille-Poste .
Population development
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Until the beginning of the 20th century, Orly was a small town in the greater Paris area with only a few hundred inhabitants. More than 6,000 people lived in Orly after the end of the Second World War . The population, which has been declining again since then, reached its peak with a little more than 30,000 inhabitants in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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history
The name Orly goes back to the Latin name Aureliacum and indicates the origin of the place from a Roman foundation. In 829 the place was mentioned as belonging to the Chapter of Notre-Dame in Paris .
In 1346, the English besieged Orly for three months while the residents holed up in the church tower.
Orly has been linked to civil aviation history through its pilot training school since the early 1930s ; this school goes back to a suggestion of the French aviation pioneer Maryse Bastié . This connection to aviation, which also exists through Paris-Orly Airport, is expressed in the municipality's coat of arms with its five stylized aircraft in a silver triangle on a blue background.
Attractions
The restored Saint-Germain-de-Paris church was built in the 12th century. The church tower was partially destroyed during the English siege in the 14th century and not completely rebuilt.
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Orly
Town twinning
Orly has partnered cities with:
- Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe , since 1973
- Klin in Moscow Oblast , Russia, since 1979
- Campi Bisenzio in Tuscany , Italy, since 1980
- Turnu-Severin in Romania, since 2000
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Val-de-Marne . 2nd Edition. Flohic Editions, Charenton-le-Pont 1994, ISBN 2-908958-94-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.recensement.insee.fr/RP99/rp99/c_affiche.affiche?nivgeo=C&codgeo=94054&produit=P_POPA ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
