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Country
  
France

Department
  
Isère

Canton
  
Côte-Saint-André

Area
  
7.26 km²

Population
  
371 (1999)

Region
  
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Arrondissement
  
Vienne

Intercommunality
  
Bièvre-Liers

Local time
  
Tuesday 10:06 PM

Balbins

Weather
  
5°C, Wind S at 6 km/h, 69% Humidity

Balbins is a French commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.

Contents

Map of 38260 Balbins, France

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Balbinois or Balbinoises.

Geography

Balbins is located some 40 km north-west of Grenoble just west of La Côte-Saint-André. Access to the commune is by the D73 from La Côte-Saint-André which passes through the commune just south of the village and continues west to Penol. The D518A passes through the east of the commune linking the D71 south of La Côte-Saint-André to the D518 north-west of La Côte-Saint-André. The commune is almost entirely farmland with urban area of the village merging with that of Ornacieux.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 386 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.

Population Change (See database)

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Sites and monuments

  • The Buissonnière Tower is the last vestige of the fortified house that stood there; it was the possession of Miribel, Salignon, and Côte Saint-André.
  • The Chateau of Armanet was a former Templar fortified house
  • Notable people linked to the commune

  • Félicien de Mons de Savasse, born in the Chateau of Armanet, Knight and Commander of the Order of Malta in 1760.
  • References

    Balbins Wikipedia