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Place details
- Locality
- Thiers
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Population
- 13,739
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Department
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Arrondissement
- Thiers
- Canton
- Thiers
- Intercommunality
- Thiers Dore et Montagne
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Stéphane Rodier
- Area
- 44.49 km (17.18 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 11,637
- Density
- 261.6/km (677.4/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 63430 /63300
- Elevation
- 2–83–793 m (6.6–272.3–2,601.7 ft) , (avg. 450 m or 1,480 ft)
- Website
- http://www.ville-thiers.fr/
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Accueil - Ville de Thiers
Un site utilisant WordPress, Découvrez Thiers, ville pittoresque d'Auvergne. Patrimoine, événements, et plus encore. Planifiez votre visite dès maintenant !
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Thiers
- Population
- 11637
- Area
- 44.49
- Elevation
- 451
- Official website
- ville-thiers.fr
- Image
- Château du Pirou.jpg
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- Commons category
- Thiers
- postal code
- 63300
- male population
- 5680
- female population
- 6167
- P8168
- 1217 Maximiliana
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-4-73-80-88-80
- fax number
- +33-4-73-80-88-81
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Article
Thiers ( French pronunciation: [tjɛːʁ] ; Auvergnat: Tièrn) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department of Auvergne in central France. With Ambert, Issoire and Riom, it is one of the department's four sub-prefectures. The district of Thiers consists of forty-three municipalities in six cantons. Its inhabitants are known as Thiernois or Bitords.
Thiers is a major historical centre of knife manufacturing, with about one hundred companies and a cutlery museum; seventy percent of French pocketknives, kitchen and table knives are manufactured in Thiers. The knowledge and craft of the Thiernois cutlers are over seven centuries old, and many of the old watermills that were used to manufacture Thiernois knives can still be seen in the Vallée des Rouets.