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Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Romestaing (French pronunciation: [ʁɔmɛstɛ̃]; Occitan: Romestanh) is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne département in south-western France.
Romestaing | |
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![]() The town hall in Romestaing | |
Coordinates: 44°25′05″N 0°00′14″E | |
Country | France |
Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
Department | Lot-et-Garonne |
Arrondissement | Marmande |
Canton | Les Forêts de Gascogne |
Intercommunality | Coteaux et Landes de Gascogne |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Pierre Grange[1] |
Area 1 | 15.46 km2 (5.97 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 159 |
• Density | 10/km2 (27/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 47224 /47250 |
Elevation | 56–167 m (184–548 ft) (avg. 183 m or 600 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Its inhabitants are called Romestaingais (male) or Romestaingaises (female), as French is a gendered language, no non-gendered name exists for them. [3]
The name of the commune comes from the Latin Romana Sattio, an important junction of Roman roads. A second hypothesis suggests that the name Romestaing is derived from the surname Hromstang. The commune has been known under its present name, which appeared in the Regista Clementis P.P.V. in 1312, since the Middle Ages.[4]
In Gascon, the commune is known as Romestanh.
Romestaing is twinned with Obersaasheim, a village in the French département of Haut-Rhin, Alsace. At the start of the Second World War, the inhabitants of Obersaasheim were evacuated to Lot-et-Garonne, to the communes of Guérin and Romestaing, until autumn 1940 when they were ordered by the occupying Germans to return to their villages.[5]
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