Place:Creuse, France

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NameCreuse
TypeDépartement
Coordinates46.083°N 2°E
Located inFrance
Also located inLimousin, France    
Contained Places
Arrondissement
Bourganeuf
Canton
Chambon-sur-Voeize
Commune
Ajain
Aubusson
Blessac
Bonnat
Boussac
Bétête
Chambon-sur-Voueize
Chavanat
Chénérailles
Crozant
Dun-le-Palestel
Felletin
Gartempe
Genouillac
Glénic
Gouzon
Guéret
La Celle-Dunoise
La Celle-sous-Gouzon
La Forêt-du-Temple
La Souterraine
Lavaufranche
Le Chauchet
Lussat
Mortroux
Moutier-Malcard
Moutier-d'Ahun
Nouziers
Parsac
Peyrat-la-Nonière
Saint-Chabrais
Saint-Domet
Saint-Goussaud
Saint-Julien-la-Genête
Saint-Julien-le-Châtel
Saint-Loup
Saint-Pardoux-les-Cards
Saint-Pierre-de-Fursac
Saint-Priest-la-Feuille
Sannat
Tardes
Toulx-Sainte-Croix
Évaux-les-Bains
Former municipality
Fayolle
Gouzougnat
La Borne
Saint-Sornin
Inhabited place
Ahun
Auzances
Bonlieu
Boussac-Bourg
Bénévent-l'Abbaye
Châtelus-Malvaleix
Chéniers
Cortine-le-Trucq
Gentioux-Pigerolles
Saint-Germain-Beaupré
Soubrebost
Unknown
Alleyrat
Anzême
Arfeuille-Châtain
Arrènes
Ars
Auge
Augères
Aulon
Auriat
Azat-Châtenet
Azerables
Banize
Basville
Bazelat
Beissat
Bellegarde-en-Marche
Blaudeix
Bord-Saint-Georges
Bosmoreau-les-Mines
Bosroger
Brousse
Budelière
Bussière-Dunoise
Bussière-Nouvelle
Bussière-Saint-Georges
Ceyroux
Chamberaud
Chambon-Sainte-Croix
Chambonchard
Chamborand
Champagnat
Champsanglard
Chard
Charron
Châtelard
Châtelus-le-Marcheix
Clairavaux
Clugnat
Colondannes
Cressat
Crocq
Croze
Domeyrot
Dontreix
Faux-Mazuras
Faux-la-Montagne
Flayat
Fleurat
Fontanières
Fransèches
Fresselines
Féniers
Gioux
Issoudun-Létrieix
Jalesches
Janaillat
Jarnages
Jouillat
La Brionne
La Cellette
La Chapelle-Baloue
La Chapelle-Saint-Martial
La Chapelle-Taillefert
La Chaussade
La Courtine-le-Trucq
La Mazière-aux-Bons-Hommes
La Nouaille
La Pouge
La Rochette
La Saunière
La Serre-Bussière-Vieille
La Villedieu
La Villeneuve
La Villetelle
Ladapeyre
Lafat
Lavaveix-les-Mines
Le Bourg-d'Hem
Le Compas
Le Donzeil
Le Grand-Bourg
Le Mas-d'Artige
Le Monteil-au-Vicomte
Les Forges
Les Mars
Leyrat
Linard
Lioux-les-Monges
Lizières
Lourdoueix-Saint-Pierre
Lupersat
Lépaud
Lépinas
Magnat-l'Etrange
Mainsat
Maison-Feyne
Maisonnisses
Malleret
Malleret-Boussac
Malval
Mansat-la-Courrière
Marsac
Masbaraud-Mérignat
Mautes
Mazeirat
Montaigut-le-Blanc
Montboucher
Mourioux
Moutier-Rozeille
Méasnes
Mérinchal
Naillat
Noth
Nouhant
Nouzerines
Nouzerolles
Néoux
Peyrabout
Pierrefitte
Pigerolles
Pionnat
Pontarion
Pontcharraud
Poussanges
Puy-Malsignat
Reterre
Rimondeix
Roches
Rougnat
Royère
Sagnat
Saint-Agnant-de-Versillat
Saint-Agnant-près-Crocq
Saint-Alpinien
Saint-Amand
Saint-Amand-Jartoudeix
Saint-Avit-de-Tardes
Saint-Avit-le-Pauvre
Saint-Bard
Saint-Christophe
Saint-Dizier-Leyrenne
Saint-Dizier-la-Tour
Saint-Dizier-les-Domaines
Saint-Eloi
Saint-Etienne-de-Fursac
Saint-Fiel
Saint-Frion
Saint-Georges-Nigremont
Saint-Georges-la-Pouge
Saint-Hilaire-la-Plaine
Saint-Hilaire-le-Château
Saint-Junien-la-Bregère
Saint-Laurent
Saint-Léger-Bridereix
Saint-Léger-le-Guérétois
Saint-Maixant
Saint-Marc-à-Frongier
Saint-Marc-à-Loubaud
Saint-Marien
Saint-Martial-le-Mont
Saint-Martial-le-Vieux
Saint-Martin-Château
Saint-Martin-Sainte-Catherine
Saint-Maurice-la-Souterraine
Saint-Maurice-près-Crocq
Saint-Merd-la-Breuille
Saint-Michel-de-Veisse
Saint-Moreil
Saint-Médard
Saint-Oradoux-de-Chirouze
Saint-Oradoux-près-Crocq
Saint-Pardoux-Morterolles
Saint-Pardoux-d'Arnet
Saint-Pardoux-le-Neuf
Saint-Pierre-Bellevue
Saint-Pierre-Chérignat
Saint-Pierre-le-Bost
Saint-Priest
Saint-Priest-Palus
Saint-Priest-la-Plaine
Saint-Quentin-la-Chabanne
Saint-Silvain-Bas-le-Roc
Saint-Silvain-Bellegarde
Saint-Silvain-Montaigut
Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx
Saint-Sulpice-le-Dunois
Saint-Sulpice-le-Guérétois
Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs
Saint-Sébastien
Saint-Vaury
Saint-Victor
Saint-Yrieix-la-Montagne
Saint-Yrieix-les-Bois
Sainte-Feyre
Sainte-Feyre-la-Montagne
Sardent
Savennes
Sermur
Soumans
Sous-Parsat
Tercillat
Thauron
Trois-Fonds
Vallières
Vareilles
Verneiges
Vidaillat
Viersat
Vigeville
Villard
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Creuse (; or ) is a department in central France named after the river Creuse. After Lozère, it is the second least populated department in France. It is bordered by Indre and Cher to the north, Allier and Puy-de-Dôme to the east, Corrèze to the south, and Haute-Vienne to the west.

Guéret, the Prefecture of Creuse has a population approximately 12,000, making it the largest settlement in the department. The next biggest town is La Souterraine and then Aubusson. The department is situated in the former Province of La Marche. Creuse is one of the most rural and sparsely populated departments in France, with a population density of 21/km2 (56/sq mi), and a 2019 population of 116,617 - the second-smallest of any Departments in France. The land use is mostly agricultural and the department is well known for its chestnut and hazelnut production, and for the Charolais and Limousin cattle breeds.

History

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Creuse is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the former province of La Marche.

The County of Marche was a county in medieval France that approximately corresponded to the modern département of Creuse. Marche first appeared as a separate fief around the mid-10th century, when William III, Duke of Aquitaine, gave it to one of his vassals named Boso, who took the title of count. In the 12th century, the countship passed to the family of Lusignan. They also were sometimes counts of Angoulême and counts of Limousin. With the death of the childless Count Guy in 1308, his possessions in La Marche were seized by Philip IV of France. In 1316 the king made La Marche an appanage for his youngest son the Prince, afterwards Charles IV. Several years later in 1327, La Marche passed into the hands of the House of Bourbon. The family of Armagnac held it from 1435 to 1477, when it reverted to the Bourbons. In 1527 La Marche was seized by Francis I and became part of the domains of the French crown. It was divided into Haute Marche and Basse Marche, the estates of the former continuing until the 17th century. From 1470 to the Revolution, the province was under the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Paris.

In 1886, , located in a remote part of Creuse, became somewhat improbably the third town in France to receive a public electricity supply. Three years later, in 1889, the construction of a primitive hydro-electric factory at on the little river at Saint-Martin-Château, away, established a more reliable electricity supply for the little town. The creation of a power line from the plant to Bourganeuf was supervised by an innovative engineer named Marcel Deprez; this was the first time that a power line over such a long distance had been constructed in France. The achievement was crowned with the region's first telephone line, which was installed to permit instant communication between the generating station and the newly-illuminated town.

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