Population (2013) 158 | Canton Les Forêts de Gascogne Area 15.46 km² | |
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Intercommunality Communauté de communes des Coteaux et des Landes de Gascogne Arrondissement | ||
Romestaing is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne département in south-western France.
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Map of 47250 Romestaing, France
Its inhabitants are called Romestaingais (male) or Romestaingaises (female).
Toponymy
The name of the commune comes from the Latin Romana Sattio, an important junction of Roman roads. A second hypothesis suggests that the name Romestaing is derived from the surname Hromstang. The commune has been known under its present name, which appeared in the Regista Clementis P.P.V. in 1312, since the Middle Ages.
In Gascon, the commune is known as Romestanh.
Twinning
Romestaing is twinned with Obersaasheim, a village in the French département of Haut-Rhin, Alsace. At the start of the Second World War, the inhabitants of Obersaasheim were evacuated to Lot-et-Garonne, to the communes of Guérin and Romestaing, until autumn 1940 when they were ordered by the occupying Germans to return to their villages.