Reillanne

Reillanne ( Ralhana in Of Provence and Vivaro-alpine of traditional Standard and Reihano in Of Provence of Standard mistralienne) is a common French, located in the department of the Alp-of-High-Provence and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure.

Its inhabitants is called Reillannais.

Geography

Of this perched village whose houses go up to the attack of a nipple, one discovers the table of orientation of Saint-Denis; from there, a panoramic sight extends on the valley from the Encrème, the Luberon and the old village of Reillanne in the south, the the Alps in the east, and the Montagne of Lure in north. Surrounding villages: Villemus (to 3,5 km), Lincel (to 4 km), Montjustin (to 4 km), Montfuron (to 6 km), Saint-Michel-the Observatory (to 6 km), the Aubenas-the-Alps (to 6,5 km), Vachères (to 6,5 km), Céreste (to 7 km).

History

At the time Roman, Reglana occupied the plain, but the invasions of the Barbarians obliged its inhabitants to take refuge on the current headland and to be surrounded by ramparts. Reillanne is thus today a beautiful perched village, still dominated by one of the turns of the old castle (on which one raised in 1889 a bell-tower) and by the Saint-Denis vault, recontruite in 1858 to thank the Virgin, whom the Penitent White had beseeched to bring the rain.

The toponym “Reillanne”

The linguist Charles Rostaing raises 26 forms for the name of Reillanne, oldest, Reglana , tonic with 909. One finds forms similar, like Reilana (11th century), Rillana (1125), Reillana (1274 or Reilhane (1401).

Three interpretations of the name are possible:

the name Reillanne would come from the Provençal reiho (“plow shear”, an agrarian object which one finds today in the weapons of Reillanne.) An obviously whimsical interpretation, related to the proximity enters the names Reillanne and reiho .
Frederic Mistral, the Félibre of Provence, and the historian Andre Bouyala d' Arnaud, find in the word “Reillanne” an evocation of the Voie Aurélienne. Charles Rostaing opposes this interpretation.
According to the toponymists Skok and Groehler, Reillanne owes its name with the people Regilius , a family (or perhaps a clan, a tribe) owner of the soil of Reillanne to the Early middle ages. The toponymist Lorgnon considers Regulius more Regilius .

The Gallo-Roman time

Reillanne begins its history as a Gallic village . When, in -123, the Consul Domitius Ahenobarbus ( with the beard of bronze ) beats the allied army of the Arvernes and the Allobroges, it conquers Reillanne and makes a Roman possession of it. It then completes to ensure pacification of it, by creating a modern way on antiques traced local, which will bear the name of Voie Domitienne, ancestor of current the Nationale 100, which passes to the south of Reillanne.

The period Gallo-Roman E is one time of peace and prosperity in the valley of Reillanne. villæ are built, the such villa Pinet, now known under the name of Château Pinet.

Reillanne profits from the preferences of Municipe and the rights of middle-class and could for this reason car-be managed.

Administration

Demography

Economy

Places and monuments

Gate of the type Florentin of the 18th century,
Houses of the 16th century,
Sundial,
Laundrette,
Old vault of the Penitent White,
Church Our-Lady-with-the Assumption,
high monumental Fountain in 1880,
ethnological Museum,
Gate of Our-Lady-of-Forging mills of the 13th century,
Bell-tower of a Romance church now disappeared,
Turn of the old castle.

Personalities related to the commune

Events

Gone Sunday morning.

See too

Common of Alp-of-High-Provence

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