| 词条 | Balbigny |
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|name = Balbigny |commune status = Commune |image = Balbigny (Loire, Fr) mairie.JPG |caption = Town hall |arrondissement = Roanne |canton = Le Coteau |INSEE = 42011 |postal code = 42510 |mayor = Gilles Dupin |term = 2014–2020 |intercommunality = Balbigny |coordinates = {{coord|45.8192|4.1881|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation min m = 314 |elevation max m = 482 |area km2 = 16.98 |population = 2989 |population date = 2015 }} Balbigny is a commune in the Loire department in central France. HistoryBalbigny owes its name to a Roman general named Balbinius who based himself here in order to conduct a war. Nothing survives from this period. The earliest identified traces of Balbigny date from 1090. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, before the Loire was channelled, Balbigny was a village of boatmen, known for flat bottomed boats known as Rambertes which were used to transport the coal mined at Saint-Étienne. The loaded Rambertes arrived from Saint-Rambert and stopped off at Balbigny where the boat crews were changed, taking the boats to the next change-over point at Roanne. All this changed in August 1832 with the arrival of the third oldest railway line in France which connected Andrézieux-Bouthéon with Roanne, passing Balbigny en route. An extension of the rail network in 1913 saw Balbigny connected with Saint-Germain-Laval and Régny. The coal was therefore transported by rail, but the railway also gave farmers in the district access to a wider range of markets for their produce. The road bridge crossing the Loire was destroyed in 1940 in order to hold back advancing German troops, and a ferry service was introduced to permit the river to be crossed. The bridge was rebuilt in 1950. Population{{Historical populations|align=left| 1962|1840| 1968|2023| 1975|2314| 1982|2469| 1990|2415| 1999|2616| 2006|2546| 2009|2809 }}{{clear-left}} Twin townsBalbigny is twinned with:
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References
1 : Communes of Loire (department) |
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