Canton of Turriers

Turriers is a canton in the arrondissement of Forcalquier in the Alpes -de -Haute- Provence, Provence- Alpes -Cote d' Azur in France. It includes seven municipalities, the capital is Turriers. Representatives in the conseil général of the department since 2001 Jean Philip.

Turriers is the origin of Pierre Franco de Turriers, a renowned surgeon and urologist of the 16th century, after the surgery, cesarean section seu methodus franconiana was named, a method of bladder section, in which the bladder is opened above the pubic symphysis.

Communities

Allos Colmar | Annot | Banon | Barcelonette | Barremian | Castellane | Digne- les- Bains- Est | Digne- les- Bains- Ouest | Entrevaux | Forcalquier | La Javie | Le Lauzet Ubaye | Manosque - Nord | Manosque -Sud - Est | Manosque -Sud -Ouest | Les Mees | Mézel | La Motte- du- Caire | Moustiers -Sainte -Marie | Noyers -sur -Jabron | Peyruis | Reillanne | Riez | Saint -André- les- Alpes | Saint- Étienne- les- Orgues | Seyne | Sisteron | Turriers | Valensole | Volonne

  • Canton in the Alpes -de -Haute -Provence
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