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Anost


FieldValue
nameAnost
commune statusCommune
imageAnost (Saône-et-Loire, Fr), church.JPG
captionÉglise Saint-Germain
INSEE71009
postal code71550
arrondissementAutun
cantonAutun-1
mayorLouis Basdevant
term2020–2026
intercommunalityCC du Grand Autunois Morvan
demonymAnostiens
coordinates
elevation m410
elevation min m357
elevation max m785
area km251.91
population
population date
population footnotes
website

Anost () is a rural commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central-east France. It is located on the departmental border with Nièvre, northeast of the Haut-Folin summit and southwest of Ménessaire, a Côte-d'Or exclave.

Geography

The commune lies in the northwestern part of Saône-et-Loire, northwest of the subprefecture Autun. It is part of the Morvan natural area, as well as Morvan Regional Natural Park.

History

167 inhabitants of Anost were killed fighting in World War I.

Amid the Liberation of France in World War II in 1944, Anost was repeatedly attacked by the German occupying forces in retaliation for being a French Resistance Maquis hideout; several inhabitants were killed.

Demographics

|1968 |1058 |1975 |867 |1982 |847 |1990 |746 |1999 |679 |2009 |691 |2014 |725 |2020 |714

References

References

  1. (2 December 2020). "Répertoire national des élus: les maires".
  2. [https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune/71009-anost INSEE commune file]
  3. Bertrand Lachambre. "Morvan, « terre de résistance » : le maquis Socrate en 1944".
  4. [https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7633058?geo=COM-71009#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE.
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