Seine-et-Oise

The department of Seine- et- Oise was a French département, which covered the west, north, south and in parts of eastern surrounding area of ​​Paris. His Prefecture was Versailles, its atomic number 78 Seine- et- Oise was disbanded in 1968.

General

The department of Seine- et- Oise was founded on March 4, 1790. Name factors were the two rivers Seine and Oise, which cross the Territory.

In its resolution 1968, the department consisted of 688 suburban and rural communities and comprised 5658 square kilometers. Its breakdown into arrondissements has been amended in its resolution there were ten: Argenteuil, Etampes, Mantes- la- Jolie, Montmorency, Palaiseau, Pontoise, Le Raincy, Rambouillet, Saint- Germain -en- Laye and Versailles.

Division

In the first census in France ( 1801), the Département Seine- et- Oise had 421 535 inhabitants. With the growth of the neighboring Paris, the population grew up in Seine- et- Oise: 1968 was 2.94335 million people, and had thus according to the government reaches a size that could not be managed. Seine- et- Oise (essentially) in the three smaller departments of Yvelines (78 ), Val- d'Oise (95) and Essonne (91 ) was divided on 1 January 1968. A smaller part of the former department was also the new départements of Hauts- de -Seine, Val- de -Marne and Seine- Saint- Denis slammed.

In detail procedure was as follows:

• 262 municipalities in the central region of Seine -et -Oise (40 % of the area ) were joined to form the Yvelines department with the Prefecture of Versailles. The atomic number 78, which was for Seine- et- Oise was acquired for Yvelines.
• 198 communities in the south of Seine -et -Oise (32 % of the area ) were joined to form the Essonne department; the order number 91, which was assigned to Essonne, was previously used by the department of Algiers.
• 185 municipalities in the north of Seine -et -Oise (22 % of the area) were combined to form Val- d'Oise; the assigned order number 95 was not used before.

The remaining 6% of the department of Seine- et- Oise went to the department of Val -de- Marne ( 18 municipalities ), Seine- Saint -Denis ( 16 municipalities ) and Hauts -de -Seine (9 communities ).

It follows that the department of Yvelines, Val- d'Oise and Essonne are together smaller than the former department of Seine -et -Oise ( 5658 km ² over 5334 km ²).

Grande couronne

In France, the departments of Yvelines, Essonne, Val- d'Oise and beyond Seine- et- Marne referred to as the grande couronne, opposite the petite couronne, relying on the side nearer to Paris Hauts -de -Seine, Val- de -Marne and Seine- Saint- Denis relates.

In the census of 1999, the department of Seine -et -Oise had ( if it had because not exist) had 4,554,426 inhabitants, and since 1968 been gained around 1.6 million inhabitants, as more and more people in the vicinity of the capital, but something continue to live outside "Green" or want.