Saint-Cannat
Saint- Cannat is a commune with 5474 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011 ) in the department of Bouches -du -Rhône in the Provence- Alpes- Côte d' Azur; it belongs to Arrondissement Aix -en- Provence and the Canton Lambesc. The community is located between Aix -en- Provence et Salon-de -Provence in the valley of the river Touloubre and the Route nationale 7
History
The place is named after Canus Natus, a bishop of Marseilles of the 5th century. In the 12th century the Archbishop Pierre mentioned in one of his documents Castrum Santi - Cannati. A century later, brought the inhabitants against the Archbishop and the Baron of Les Baux. Around the same time, the templars settled here.
On June 11, 1909 Saint- Cannat was devastated by an earthquake in 1984 and 1994, drawn by floods affected.
Demographics
Personalities
- Pierre André de Suffren
Footnotes
Aix -en -Provence | Auron | Beaurecueil | Bouc -Bel- Air | Cabriès | Charleval | Châteauneuf -le- Rouge | Cornillon- Confoux | Coudoux | Éguilles | Fuveau | Gardanne | Grans | Jouques | La Barben | La Fare -les- Oliviers | La Roque- d'Anthéron | Lambesc | Lancon -Provence | Le Puy -Sainte- Réparade | Le tholonet | Les Pennes -Mirabeau | Meyrargues | Meyreuil | Mimet | Pélissanne | Peynier | Peyrolles -en -Provence | Puyloubier | Rognes | Rousset | Saint- Antonin- sur- Bayon | Saint- Cannat | Saint- Esteve - Janson | Saint -Marc- Jaumegarde | Saint -Paul- lès -Durance | Salon-de -Provence | Septèmes -les -Vallons | Simiane -Collongue | trets | Vauvenargues | velaux | Venelles | ventabren
Bouches -du -Rhône: Aix -en -Provence | Beaurecueil | Bouc -Bel- Air | Cabriès | Châteauneuf -le- Rouge | Coudoux | Éguilles | Fuveau | Lambesc | Meyrargues | Meyreuil | Mimet | Les Pennes -Mirabeau | Peynier | Peyrolles -en -Provence | Puyloubier | Le Puy -Sainte- Réparade | Rognes | La Roque- d'Anthéron | Rousset | Saint- Antonin- sur- Bayon | Saint- Cannat | Saint- Esteve - Janson | Saint -Marc- Jaumegarde | Saint -Paul- lès -Durance | Simiane -Collongue | Le tholonet | Trets | Vauvenargues | Venelles | ventabren | Vitrolles
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