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.
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Location of Billom 
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| Coordinates: 45°43′11″N 3°20′18″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Puy-de-Dôme |
| Arrondissement | Clermont-Ferrand |
| Canton | Billom |
| Intercommunality | Billom - Saint-Dier / Vallée du Jauron |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2016–2020) | Jean-Michel Charlat[1] |
| Area 1 | 16.96 km2 (6.55 sq mi) |
| Population (2017-01-01)[2] | 4,741 |
| • Density | 280/km2 (720/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 63040 /63160 |
| Elevation | 345–563 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 | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1968 | 3,704 | — |
| 1975 | 3,968 | +7.1% |
| 1982 | 4,092 | +3.1% |
| 1990 | 3,968 | −3.0% |
| 1999 | 4,246 | +7.0% |
| 2006 | 4,632 | +9.1% |
| 2009 | 4,637 | +0.1% |
| 2013 | 4,632 | −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]
External links
References
- Elected by municipal council on 5 February 2016: "COMPTE RENDU DU CONSEIL MUNICIPAL 5 FEVRIER 2016" (PDF) (in French). Town Hall of Billom. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
- "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- "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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