Bollezeele

Bollezeele
Bollezeele
Commune
	A view within Bollezeele
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 50°51′55″N 2°19′29″E / 50.8653°N 2.3247°ECoordinates: 50°51′55″N 2°19′29″E / 50.8653°N 2.3247°E
Country	France
Region	Hauts-de-France
Department	Nord
Arrondissement	Dunkirk
Canton	Wormhout
Intercommunality	Hauts de Flandre
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre Marle
Area 1	17.54 km2 (6.77 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	1,430
• Density	82/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	59089 /59470
Elevation	2–52 m (6.6–170.6 ft) ; (avg. 44 m or 144 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bollezeele (from Dutch; Bollezele in the modern Dutch spelling) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

It is 17 km (11 mi) south of Dunkirk and also 20 km (12 mi) west of the Belgian border. The river Yser runs through Bollezeele.

Language[]

Bollezeele's local speech is traditionally a Flemish dialect, similar to that spoken on the other side of the border with Belgium; this led to the town's being included in the Atlas Linguarum Europae as one of the Germanic dialects in France (the others were all in either Alsace or Moselle).^[3]

Population[]

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,258	—
1800	1,383	+9.9%
1806	1,539	+11.3%
1821	1,588	+3.2%
1831	1,662	+4.7%
1836	1,708	+2.8%
1841	1,740	+1.9%
1846	1,800	+3.4%
1851	1,769	−1.7%
1856	1,732	−2.1%
1861	1,718	−0.8%
1866	1,776	+3.4%
1872	1,811	+2.0%
1876	1,815	+0.2%
1881	1,798	−0.9%
1886	1,805	+0.4%
1891	1,700	−5.8%
1896	1,649	−3.0%
1901	1,620	−1.8%

Year	Pop.	±%
1906	1,591	−1.8%
1911	1,585	−0.4%
1921	1,550	−2.2%
1926	1,560	+0.6%
1931	1,543	−1.1%
1936	1,562	+1.2%
1946	1,506	−3.6%
1954	1,463	−2.9%
1962	1,439	−1.6%
1968	1,389	−3.5%
1975	1,328	−4.4%
1982	1,500	+13.0%
1990	1,476	−1.6%
1999	1,382	−6.4%
2004	1,375	−0.5%
2006	1,382	+0.5%
2009	1,391	+0.7%
2014	1,432	+2.9%
2015	1,443	+0.8%

Politics[]

Presidential Elections 2nd Round[]

	Winning Candidate	Party	%
2017	Marine Le Pen	FN	51.64
2012	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	60.17
2007	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	64.92
2002	Jacques Chirac	RPR	78.83

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Heraldry[]

	The arms of Bollezeele are blazoned : Or, a lion sable armed and langued gules. ('Flanders' and the communes of Thourotte, Crépy-en-Valois, Bollezeele, Feignies, Flines-lez-Raches and Wormhout use the same arms.)

References[]

INSEE commune file

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
^ Eder, Birgit (2003). Ausgewählte Verwandtschaftsbezeichnungen in den Sprachen Europas. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. p. 299. ISBN 3631528736.
^ http://www.lemonde.fr/data/france/presidentielle-2017//