Corseul

Corseul
Kersaout

Roman ruins
Corseul

Coordinates: 48°28′57″N 2°10′08″W / 48.4825°N 2.1689°W / 48.4825; -2.1689Coordinates: 48°28′57″N 2°10′08″W / 48.4825°N 2.1689°W / 48.4825; -2.1689
Country France
Region Brittany
Department Côtes-d'Armor
Arrondissement Dinan
Canton Plancoët
Intercommunality Plancoët Val d'Arguenon
Government
 • Mayor (2014–2020) Alain Jan
Area1 41.74 km2 (16.12 sq mi)
Population (2008)2 1,975
 • Density 47/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 22048 / 22130
Elevation 13–126 m (43–413 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Corseul (Breton: Kersaout, Gallo: Corsoeut) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.

The town was a major Roman town and contains Roman ruins. The town hall contains a small archaeological museum.[1]

History

Corseul was called Fanum Martis ("Temple of Mars") in Latin and was the capital of the Gallo-Roman province of Coriosolites. It was founded in 10 BC.[2] In the 3rd and 4th centuries, like many other cities, Fanum Martis was renamed for its people, the Curiosolitae. This name change occurred as the Roman Empire weakened and paralleled a revival of the ancient Gallic gods in local religious sculptures and dedicatory inscriptions.[3]

Some 1.5 kilometres to the southeast, at Haut-Bécherel, stand the prominent remains of an extensive Roman temple sanctuary, built at the time of Nero and Vespasian.[4]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
19621,830—    
19681,925+5.2%
19751,955+1.6%
19822,022+3.4%
19901,987−1.7%
19991,977−0.5%
20081,975−0.1%

Inhabitants of Corseul are called coriosolites or curiosolites in French.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Official site" (in French). Commune of Corseul. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
  2. ↑ H Kérébel, "Évolution d'un chef-lieu de cité au cours de la première moitié du Ier siècle: Corseul (Fanum Martis), capitale de la cité des Coriosolites" Les villes de la Gaulle lyonnaise, 1996, reports on excavations since 1984; some finds from the site are conserved in the town museum and in the Musée Archéologique at Rennes.
  3. ↑ "Corseul, capitale romaine des Coriosolites" (in French). armorance.free.fr. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
  4. ↑ Louis Gouipeau, "La datation archéomagnétique du temple du Haut-Bécherel à Corseul", Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest 1984.1:pp84-88.
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