Quéven
Quéven
Kewenn | |
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Coordinates: 47°47′22″N 3°24′50″W / 47.7894°N 3.4139°W | |
Country | France |
Region | Brittany |
Department | Morbihan |
Arrondissement | Lorient |
Canton | Ploemeur |
Intercommunality | Lorient Agglomération |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Marc Boutruche[1] |
Area 1 | 23.93 km2 (9.24 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 8,790 |
• Density | 370/km2 (950/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 56185 /56530 |
Elevation | 2–66 m (6.6–216.5 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Quéven (French pronunciation: [kevɛ̃]; Breton: Kewenn) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.[3]
History
During World War I, Quéven lost one hundred and one of its children.
85% of the town was destroyed in World War II. In January 1945, the city of Toulouse adopted the ruined town, via its mayor Raymond Badiou. In memory of this help the main square of Quéven was renamed "Place de la ville de Toulouse" and a street in Toulouse was renamed "Rue de Quéven".[4]
The city of Queven has been honoured 25 September 1949 with Cross of War 1929-1945 by the citation 11 November 1948 of the Ministry of the Armed Force, Max Lejeune.
Population
Inhabitants of Quéven are called in French Quévenois.
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1968 | 2,954 | — |
1975 | 4,529 | +6.30% |
1982 | 6,798 | +5.97% |
1990 | 8,400 | +2.68% |
1999 | 8,314 | −0.11% |
2007 | 8,744 | +0.63% |
2012 | 8,666 | −0.18% |
2017 | 8,676 | +0.02% |
Source: INSEE[5] |
Twin towns
Quéven is twinned with:
Breton language
The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 26 September 2008.
In 2008, there was 1,83% of the children attended the bilingual schools in primary education.[6]
See also
- Communes of the Morbihan department
- Entry on sculptor of Quéven war memorial Jean Joncourt
References
- ^ "Maires du Morbihan" (PDF). Préfecture du Morbihan. 7 July 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ INSEE commune file
- ^ La place de la ville de Toulouse, Quéven au fil du temps
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ (in French) Ofis ar Brezhoneg: Enseignement bilingue
External links
- Official website (in French)
- Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
- Mayors of Morbihan Association (in French)
- Articles with French-language sources (fr)
- Use dmy dates from April 2018
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Coordinates on Wikidata
- Pages using infobox settlement with image map1 but not image map
- Pages with French IPA
- Articles containing Breton-language text
- Commons category link from Wikidata
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Communes of Morbihan
- All stub articles
- Morbihan geography stubs
- Pages using the Kartographer extension