Largentière
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| Commune of Largentière | |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Ardèche (sous-préfecture) |
| Arrondissement | Largentière |
| Mayor | Jean-Roger Durand (Conseiller Général) |
| Statistics | |
| Population² (1999) |
2,046 |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 07132/ 07710 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Largentière is a commune of the Ardèche département, in the Rhône-Alpes region of France, located approximately ten kilometers southwest of Aubenas. Its name, adopted in the Thirteenth Century, refers to the silver mines in the area between the Tenth and Fifteenth Centuries, operated under the authority of the Counts of Toulouse and the Bishops of Viviers.
A busy industrial town in the Nineteenth Century, its principal industry is now tourism. Its only railroad station was rased in 1982, leaving the town accessible only by autoroute.
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