Tartaras

Tartaras is a common French, located in the department of the the Loire and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Geography

Tartaras was formerly in the middle of a coal basin developed at the 19th century and preserves vestiges of the channel of Givors at the Grand Cross (locks and tunnel of the Bored Rock) used for the transport of coal and closed in 1788.

History

The origins of the city go up at the time Roman, of the Gallo-Roman sarcophagi are still visible in the borough.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Charles BOSSUT (1730 - 1814), mathematician, collaborator of Diderot for the mathematical part of the Encyclopedia, father of the experimental hydrodynamics.

See too

Common of the Loire

External bonds

Tartaras on the site of the national geographical Institute
Tartaras on the site of INSEE
Tartaras on the site of Quid
Localization of Tartaras on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Tartaras on Mapquest

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