Billom

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

Billom
Commune
A general view of Billom
Coat of arms
Location of Billom
Billom
Billom
Coordinates: 45°43′11″N 3°20′18″E
CountryFrance
RegionAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes
DepartmentPuy-de-Dôme
ArrondissementClermont-Ferrand
CantonBillom
IntercommunalityBillom
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Jean-Michel Charlat[1]
Area
1
16.96 km2 (6.55 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[2]
4,741
 • Density280/km2 (720/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
63040 /63160
Elevation345–563 m (1,132–1,847 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population
Historical population
YearPop.±%
19683,704—    
19753,968+7.1%
19824,092+3.1%
19903,968−3.0%
19994,246+7.0%
20064,632+9.1%
20094,637+0.1%
20134,632−0.1%
Source: INSEE (1968–2013)

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").[3]

See also

References
  1. "Liste des Maires du Puy de Dôme" [List of Mayors of Puy-de-Dôme] (in French). Association of Rural Mayors of Puy-de-Dôme. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  2. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  3. "Frater Hugo de Bidiliomo provincie Francie, magister fuit egregius in theologia et mul[tum] famosus in romana curia; qui actu lector existens apud Sanctam Sabinam, per papam Nicolaum quartum eiusdem ecclesie factus cardinalis [16 May 1288]; postmodum per Celestinum papa in [1294] est ordinatus in episcopum [O]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&pg=PA275&lpg=PA275&dq=%22#v=onepage&q&f=false, accessed 2011.


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