Code postal : 34500. To meet the entertainment needs of the expanding citizenry, an amphitheater was built in the heart of the town. In 1834, Gaihac earned a contract to a house in Beziers, the house was inaugurated later that year., named the Good Shepard. It was only once directly threatened. Enough of talking, the time has come for action! On 16 May, the Béziers municipal council, of Radical and Socialist tendency, resigned. last known population is ≈ 73 000 (year 2012). ", within the space of two or three hours they crossed the ditches and the walls and Béziers was taken. La seconde ville de l’Hérault en termes de population est Béziers. After the death of Viscount William around 990, the viscounty passed to his daughter Garsendis and her husband, count Raimond-Roger of Carcassonne (d. c.1012). The event ended with speeches on the Place de la Citadelle, (now Place Jean-Jaurès). The population density of the city is 743.16 inhabitants per km2. The slogans on the banners Proclaimed: "Victory or death! There was therefore no penal sanction for the revolt of the 17th, contrary to the legend that developed on this subject. [citation needed], Béziers hosts the famous Feria de Béziers, centred on bullfighting, every August. White wine was exported to Rome. There are remains of an arena from the Roman colony Beterrae. At Béziers, the Canal du Midi spans the river Orb as an aqueduct called the Pont-canal de l'Orb, claimed to be the first of its kind. It was in Béziers that Gaston d'Orléans and Henri II de Montmorency, Governor of Languedoc, met at the beginning of the rebellion. Large landowners, coming from industry, finance or the liberal professions, gained possession of immense vineyards. On 23 June, a law was finally passed, which repressed the massive chaptalisation of the wines. Béziers forms with other four communes the urban area of Béziers with a population of 89,243 inhabitants (2013) and an area of 135.6 km 2 (52.4 sq mi). The crowd spilled into Paul-Riquet and the Champ-de-Mars. Vous recherchez des petites annonces de femmes mariées sur Béziers rencontre a beziers , ne cherchez plus ! In Paris, the Republic trembled, as Clemenceau had to face a vote of no confidence. The Trencavels ruled for the next 142 years, until the Albigensian Crusade, a formal crusade (holy war) authorised by Pope Innocent III. However, he survived by letting the military command urgently negotiate with the mutineers. In 1892, the winegrowers of the Midi demanded "The restoration and enforcement of customs duties". One of the commanders of the crusade was the Papal legate Arnaud-Amaury (or Arnald Amalaricus, Abbot of Citeaux). Béziers' Catholics were given an ultimatum to hand over the heretics or leave before the crusaders besieged the city and to "avoid sharing their fate and perishing with them". Air: Béziers Cap d'Agde Airport (previously Béziers-Agde-Vias Airport), owned by the Chamber of commerce and Industry, provides connections to destinations in northern Europe. Béziers' rugby union team (AS Béziers) has twelve championships to its credit. To meet the entertainment needs of the expanding citizenry, an amphitheater was built in the heart of the town. To our amazement, crying "to arms, to arms! By some accounts, none were left alive – by others, there were a handful of survivors. The inhabitants of Béziers are known as Biterrois, after Baeterrae, the Roman name for the town. Si le taux de croissance de la population serait même que dans la période 2007-2012 (+0.14%/an), la population de/d' Béziers en 2020 serait: 73 790*. Béziers is also a member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network. King Charles IX passed through the city during his royal tour of France (1564–1566), accompanied by the Court and the great men of the kingdom: his brother the Duke of Anjou, Henri of Navarre, and the cardinals of Bourbon and Lorraine. Béziers, Occitan: Besièrs) is a town and commune in the Occitanie region of Southern France; it is a subprefecture of the Hérault department. Following an extension to the runway which was completed in March 2007, Ryanair began flights to and from Bristol Airport in March 2008, and later to London Stansted and London Luton Airport. From the 10th to the 12th century, Béziers was the centre of a Viscountship of Béziers. [7], Béziers is one of the oldest cities in France. Negotiations and the scale of the movement prevented collective punishment: the mutineers of the 17th were assigned to Gafsa (Tunisia), a place where soldiers were often sent for "disciplinary companies", but these soldiers remained outside this framework, and were under ordinary military status. [10]) Amalric's own version of the siege, described in his letter to Pope Innocent III in August 1209 (col. 139), states: While discussions were still going on with the barons about the release of those in the city who were deemed to be Catholics, the servants and other persons of low rank and unarmed attacked the city without waiting for orders from their leaders. Others were condemned to death or transported to Guiana, including a former mayor who died at sea attempting to escape from there. 21, rue Bayard - 31000 - Toulouse - France rencontre a beziers. Béziers is a town and commune in the Occitanie region of Southern France; it is a subprefecture of the Hérault department. This position connected Gaihac to a vulnerable section of the French population: poor women. Béziers is a town and commune in the Occitanie region of Southern France; it is a subprefecture of the Hérault department. The population density of Béziers is 758.92 inhabitants per km². The Pont-canal de l'Orb is said to be the world's first canal aqueduct. On 21 June, in the early morning, they arrived in town. Despite the massacre, the city was repopulated. It had several successive names: first, "The Literary and Patriotic Cabinet", a name still derived from the social life of the Ancien Régime; it then became "Society of the Friends of the Constitution and Liberty". Béziers Moyenne des villes; Population (2017) 77 177 hab. Béziers was not damaged in the Hundred Years' War. There was also a growing foreign competition, with smuggled wines appearing on the market. The South was on the brink of insurrection. The number of housing of Béziers was 40 497 in 2007. Today, the amphitheater is only a shadow of its former self. The police station and the town hall façade were set on fire. In 2014, it had a population of 75,701. [9] However, many refused and resisted with the Cathars. 1 945 hab. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques, Paris, France, INSEE. TGV trains stop in Béziers, but the tracks between Montpellier and Spain are not yet high speed tracks. They traveled about twenty kilometers by night. Question: What is the population of Béziers? If population growth rate would be same as in period 2007-2012 (+0.14%/year), Béziers population in 2020 would be: 73 790*. They were warmly welcomed by the Biterrois, "fraternizing with the demonstrators, and peacefully opposing the armed forces". 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