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Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Billom
Commune
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Location of Billom
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Coordinates: 45°43′11″N 3°20′18″E / 45.7197°N 3.3382°E / 45.7197; 3.3382
CountryFrance
RegionAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
DepartmentPuy-de-Dôme
ArrondissementClermont-Ferrand
CantonBillom
IntercommunalityBillom Communauté
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Jean-Michel Charlat
Area16.96 km (6.55 sq mi)
Population4,808
 • Density280/km (730/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code63040 /63160
Elevation345–563 m (1,132–1,847 ft)
French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Billom (French pronunciation: [bijɔ̃]; Auvergnat: Bilhom) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in central France.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 3,704—    
1975 3,968+0.99%
1982 4,092+0.44%
1990 3,968−0.38%
1999 4,246+0.76%
2007 4,619+1.06%
2012 4,739+0.51%
2017 4,741+0.01%
Source: INSEE

Notable natives

Billom was the birthplace of the philosopher Georges Bataille. It was also the birthplace of Cardinal Hugh Aycelin, OP, who was a 13th-century French Dominican theologian and philosopher, and who served as lector at the Studium Provinciale of Santa Sabina in Rome, this institution being the predecessor of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the "Angelicum").

See also

References

  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
  2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  4. "Frater Hugo de Bidiliomo provincie Francie, magister fuit egregius in theologia et mul famosus in romana curia; qui actu lector existens apud Sanctam Sabinam, per papam Nicolaum quartum eiusdem ecclesie factus cardinalis ; postmodum per Celestinum papa in est ordinatus in episcopum stiensem", cr. p. 3r, at http://www.e-theca.net/emiliopanella/lector12.htm, accessed 9 May 2011. See also Rome across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas (2011), p. 275, at https://books.google.com/books?id=xGiHbiqknLgC&dq=%22&pg=PA275 accessed 2011.

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