Tille Tille may refer to:
* Tillé, village in northern France
* Tille (river), river in eastern France
* Tille Höyük, archaeological site in Turkey
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commune
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France
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.
Etymology
According to Auguste Mochot, publishing a book on Marcilly-sur-Tille in 1882, the origin of the name would come from "''Mar''" = isolated mountain and "''arci''" = entrenched place, which makes "''Marci''" = entrenched place near of an isolated mountain. The final "''illy''" to be regarded as a detail of locution specific to the idiom of the region.
Town planning
Typology
Marcilly-sur-Tille is an urban municipality, because it is a part of dense municipalities or intermediate density, within the meaning of the municipal density grid of INSEE. It belongs to the urban unit of Is-sur-Tille, an intra-departmental agglomeration regrouping 2 communes and 6,068 inhabitants in 2017, of which it is a commune of the suburbs.
In addition, the municipality is part of the attraction area of Dijon, of which it is a municipality in the crown. This area, which includes 333 municipalities, is categorized in areas of 200,000 to less than 700,000 inhabitants.
Land use
The zoning of the municipality, as reflected in the database European occupation biophysical soil Corine Land Cover (CLC), is marked by the importance of the agricultural land (76.7% in 2018), a proportion roughly equivalent to that of 1990 (75.5%). The detailed breakdown in 2018 is as follows:
* arable land (65.9%)
* heterogeneous agricultural areas (10.8%)
* urbanized areas (10.6%)
* industrial or commercial areas and communication networks (6%)
* forests (3.4%)
* inland waters (3.2%)
The IGN also provides an online tool to compare the evolution over time of land use in the municipality (or in territories at different scales). Several eras are accessible as aerial maps or photos: the Cassini map (18th century), the map of Staff (1820-1866) and the current period (1950 to present).
History
By its isolated position, the location of Mont de Marcilly naturally attracted prehistoric men. Indeed, it allowed the control of the valley of the Tille. This observation post also served as a refuge in case of danger. Weapons (blades of
sickle
A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting, or reaping, grain crops or cutting Succulent plant, succulent forage chiefly for feed ...
s and
knives
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), clearly specialized tools (like
saw
A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge. It is used to cut through material, very often wood, though sometimes metal or stone. The cut is made by placing the toothed edge against the material and mov ...
) were found there and are exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Dijon.
In the 16th century, the town was called Marcilly and, in
Patois
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, Marcillei. Its inhabitants are the Marcillians. It depended on the
diocese
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History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...
of
Langres
Langres () is a commune in northeastern France. It is a subprefecture of the department of Haute-Marne, in the region of Grand Est.
History
As the capital of the Romanized Gallic tribe known as the Lingones, it was called Andematunnum, then ...
and was part of
Champagne
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at that time. It was not until 1790 that it was attached to the Côte d'Or. Apart from a lawsuit for grazing in 1566, the Marcillians generally have good relations with the ''Issois'' (residents of Is-sur-Tille). They would even have united, as ''
Huguenots
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'' (or Reformed) to burn the hunt which contained the relics of Saint-Florent in
Til-Châtel
Til-Châtel () is a commune of the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Côte-d'Or department
The following is a list of the 698 communes of the Côte-d'Or department of France.
The communes coo ...
. But with the revocation of the
Edict of Nantes
The Edict of Nantes () was signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV and granted the Calvinist Protestants of France, also known as Huguenots, substantial rights in the nation, which was in essence completely Catholic. In the edict, Henry aimed pr ...
, 78 inhabitants, or 3/4 of the population abjured and returned to the bosom of the Catholic Church.
There have been many lords in Marcilly since around 1,250: Lords of Til-Châtel, of Gemini, then of Is in part, according to the different marriages, partitions, inheritances of the time. Around 1876, there were mostly wine growers and cultivators. The village consisted of only two streets that met at an acute angle in front of the church: rue de la Route (now called Grande Rue) and rue du Potet.
File:Marcilly-sur-Tille FR21 monument IMF6573.jpg, A
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
memorial in Marcilly-sur-Tille
File:Marcilly-sur-Tille FR21 monument IMF6575.jpg, Detail of the plaques below the statue
File:Marcilly-sur-Tille FR21 eglise IMF6568.jpg, Saint-Maurice Church