Belleville-sur-Vie
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Location within Pays de la Loire region
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| Coordinates: 46°47′03″N 1°25′48″W / 46.7842°N 1.43°WCoordinates: 46°47′03″N 1°25′48″W / 46.7842°N 1.43°W | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Pays de la Loire | |
| Department | Vendée | |
| Arrondissement | La Roche-sur-Yon | |
| Canton | Aizenay | |
| Intercommunality | Vie et Boulogne | |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Régis Plisson (PR) | |
| Area1 | 15.16 km2 (5.85 sq mi) | |
| Population (2006)2 | 3,595 | |
| • Density | 240/km2 (610/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 85019 /85170 | |
| Elevation | 55–84 m (180–276 ft) | |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Belleville-sur-Vie is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Bellevigny.
Belleville-sur-Vie is situated 15 km north of La Roche-sur-Yon and 40 km from Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie on the Atlantic coast. The commune has an area of 1516 ha. 17 ha comprise 4 parks and 32 ha of green spaces. The main water source is the river Vie, a 62 km long stream which empties into the Atlantic at Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie. The river has four tributaries, the Jaunay, the Petite Boulogne, the Gué Gorand and the Ligneron.
In twenty years the region has doubled in population to the total of 3,838 (INSEE 01/01/2009). 58% of the population is 40 years old and younger and 36% less than 25 years old.
100 commercial enterprises employ around 1400 people in the area.
Belleville-sur-Vie belongs to the group of 'communes' of Boulogne which also includes: Aizenay, Beaufou, La Génétouze, Le Poiré-sur-Vie, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, St. Denis la Chevasse et Saligny. It also belongs equally to the region 'Yon et Vie' which is a part of 23 communities belonging to the region 'La Roche-sur-Yon'.
Belleville-sur-Vie won two flowers at the cities and villages flowers competition (palmarès 2009). The first flower was awarded in 2007. The second flower was then awarded in 2009.
The fortified château of the seigneur (lord) of Belleville was constructed towards the end of the 11th century and included moat. From 935 AD, historians discuss a seigneur of Bellville, the familial line of the seigneur of Belleville ended in 1306 with the death of the last male heir, Maurice de Belleville. The sole and final heir Jeanne de Belleville outlived her spouse who was decapitated on order of the king of France for the crime of treason - his lands therefore summarily confiscated. After she remarried into the Harpedanne family (of English origins) she re-established herself in Poitou until the occupation following the treaty of Brittany (1360)
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