Antony,_Hauts-de-Seine

Antony, Hauts-de-Seine

Coordinates: 48°45′14″N, 2°17′51″E

Administration
Commune of Antony
Location

Paris and inner ring départements
Coordinates	48°45′14″N, 2°17′51″E
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Hauts-de-Seine
Arrondissement	Antony
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération des Hauts de Bièvre
Mayor	Jean-Yves Senant (since 2004)
Statistics
Elevation	45 m – 103 m m
Land area^¹	9.56 km²
Population^² (2005 (estimate) 1999 census)	60,000 59,855
- Density	6276/km² (2005)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	92002/ 92160
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Antony is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 11.3 km. (7 miles) from the center of Paris. Antony is a sub-prefecture of the Hauts-de-Seine department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Antony.

1 Name
2 History
3 Demographics
- 3.1 Immigration
4 Administration
5 Transport
6 Sister cities
7 Miscellaneous
8 See also
9 External links

Name

The name Antony was recorded for the first time in a royal charter of 829 as Antoniacum, meaning "estate of Antonius", a Gallo-Roman landowner.

History

At the end of the Hundred Years' War, Antony counted around a hundred inhabitants.

Demographics

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Antony in 1999
Born in Metropolitan France	Born outside Metropolitan France
82.4%	17.6%
	Born in Overseas France	Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth¹	EU-15 immigrants²	Non-EU-15 immigrants
	1.6%	3.8%	3.0%	9.2%

¹This group is made up largely of pieds-noirs from Northwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that a foreign country is understood as a country not part of France as of 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
² An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that an immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.

Administration

Saint-Saturnin church

Antony is the seat of the Communauté d'agglomération des Hauts de Bièvre. The Communauté covers 7 communes, 5 in Hauts-de-Seine and two in Essonne département:

The canton of Antony includes a part of the commune of Antony, the other part is in Bourg-la-Reine.

Transport

Antony is served by five stations on Paris RER line B: Parc de Sceaux, La Croix de Berny, Antony, Fontaine-Michalon, and Les Baconnets.

Antony station is an interchange station with the Orlyval, which carries passengers to Orly Airport.

Finally, Antony is also served by Chemin d'Antony station on Paris RER line C.

Sister cities

Antony is twinned with:

Eleftheroupolis, Greece	Collegno, Italy	Turin, Italy	Lewisham, England, UK
Sderot, Israel	Hammam-Lif, Tunisia	Protvino, Russia	Olomouc, Czech Republic
Lexington, Massachusetts, USA	Reinickendorf, Germany

Miscellaneous

Antony was the birthplace of:

Nicola Sirkis (born 1959) singer with the French band Indochine
Agnès Jaoui (born 1964) screenwriter, film director and actress
Laurent Lafforgue (born 1966), mathematician

External links

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Antony city council website (in French)
Paris-Sud Community (in English)

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