Gignac-la-Nerthe

Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the French article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Gignac-la-Nerthe]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Gignac-la-Nerthe}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Coat of arms

Location of Gignac-La Nerthe

(2020–2026) Christian Amiraty^[1]Area

8.64 km² (3.34 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

10,083 • Density1,200/km² (3,000/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

13043 /13180

Elevation11–128 m (36–420 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Gignac-la-Nerthe (French pronunciation: [ʒiɲak la nɛʁt]; Occitan: Ginhac) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France. It is located about 10 km north-north-west of Marseille and is primarily a residential community.

History

During Antiquity, what is now Gignac hosted a Roman villa.^[3]

In the 13th century, the Knights Templar built the Saint-Michel de Gignac castle. After the Middle Age, agriculture developed (wheat, olive, vineries,…). The church of Gignac was built in 1780. At that time, Gignac was part of the Marignane seigneurie.^[3]

The commune was created during the French Revolution. At first, it included Le Rove, which separated in 1835. In 1919, the commune changed its name from Gignac to Gignac-la-Nerthe to differentiate from other towns with the same name.

In the 19th century, many migrants from Spain and Italy came to live in the area, but the town only started to grow in the 1960s with the arrival of Pieds-Noirs from Algeria.

Geography and population

Gignac-la-Nerthe is situated just north of the Estaque hills and south of the Étang de Berre.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	553	—
1800	578	+0.63%
1806	1,037	+10.23%
1821	1,378	+1.91%
1831	1,509	+0.91%
1836	706	−14.09%
1841	731	+0.70%
1846	810	+2.07%
1851	876	+1.58%
1856	909	+0.74%
1861	956	+1.01%
1866	908	−1.02%
1872	928	+0.36%
1876	887	−1.12%
1881	863	−0.55%
1886	915	+1.18%
1891	940	+0.54%
1896	938	−0.04%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	946	+0.17%
1906	991	+0.93%
1911	987	−0.08%
1921	1,314	+2.90%
1926	1,270	−0.68%
1931	1,240	−0.48%
1936	1,364	+1.92%
1946	1,527	+1.14%
1954	1,687	+1.25%
1962	1,963	+1.91%
1968	2,666	+5.23%
1975	3,568	+4.25%
1982	4,361	+2.91%
1990	8,772	+9.13%
1999	9,189	+0.52%
2007	9,245	+0.08%
2012	9,070	−0.38%
2017	9,326	+0.56%

Source: EHESS^[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)^[5]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b Histoire de Gignac-la-Nerthe Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine, Michel Méténier, ville de Gignac-la-Nerthe, consulté le 18 mars 2013.
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Gignac-la-Nerthe, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE