Grenade
Commune
The church in Grenade
The church in Grenade
Coat of arms of Grenade
Coat of arms
Location of Grenade
Grenade is located in France
Grenade
Grenade
Grenade is located in Occitanie
Grenade
Grenade
Coordinates: 43°46′20″N 1°17′37″E / 43.7722°N 1.2936°E / 43.7722; 1.2936
CountryFrance
RegionOccitania
DepartmentHaute-Garonne
ArrondissementToulouse
CantonLéguevin
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Jean-Paul Delmas[1]
Area
1
37.01 km2 (14.29 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2021)[2]
8,961
 • Density240/km2 (630/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
31232 /31330
Elevation97–167 m (318–548 ft)
(avg. 115 m or 377 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Grenade (French pronunciation: [ɡʁənad] ⓘ; Languedocien: Granada), also referred to as Grenade-sur-Garonne, is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.

History

The town is a bastide founded in the 1290s on the initiative of the Cistercian monks of the Abbey of Grandselve who had founded Beaumont-de-Lomagne ten years earlier. The city is the subject of a paréage agreement between the monks and the seneschal Eustache de Beaumarchais representing King Philip IV. The new bastides created at this time are baptized with the names of large influential cities of the time, from Spain or Italy , such as Fleurance (Florence), or Cologne. Grenada is therefore called so to show that it is destined to be an influential city in the South West of France. It has also been suggested that Granada comes from the Latin Granat - meaning grain - as the region was noted for its agriculture. Later, when the king had regained control of the different regions of the South-West, a “network” of bastides was created. Under this royal protection, Granada prospered thanks to the cultivation of the cleared plains around it. Moreover, the initial plan of the city provided for more than 3,000 dwellings, but only 1,000 were built.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 4,360—    
1800 3,333−3.76%
1806 3,886+2.59%
1821 3,925+0.07%
1831 4,112+0.47%
1836 4,286+0.83%
1841 4,281−0.02%
1846 4,444+0.75%
1851 4,364−0.36%
1856 4,302−0.29%
1861 4,158−0.68%
1866 4,204+0.22%
1872 4,007−0.80%
1876 3,973−0.21%
1881 3,906−0.34%
1886 3,998+0.47%
1891 3,924−0.37%
1896 3,622−1.59%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 3,599−0.13%
1906 3,606+0.04%
1911 3,302−1.75%
1921 2,869−1.40%
1926 3,012+0.98%
1931 2,927−0.57%
1936 2,793−0.93%
1946 2,974+0.63%
1954 3,235+1.06%
1962 3,394+0.60%
1968 4,108+3.23%
1975 4,540+1.44%
1982 4,784+0.75%
1990 5,026+0.62%
1999 5,767+1.54%
2007 7,106+2.64%
2012 8,310+3.18%
2017 8,847+1.26%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE (1968-2017)[4]

Monuments

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ↑ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Grenade, EHESS (in French).
  4. ↑ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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