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[[File:Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda - vue générale de Palalda.jpg|thumb|View of Palalda]]
'''Palalda''' ({{IPA|fr|palalda|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Fabricio Cardenas (Culex)-Palalda.wav}}; {{langx|ca|Palaldà}}) is a former commune in [[Pyrénées-Orientales]], now part of [[Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda]].

== Geography ==
Palalda is located above the river [[Tech (river)|Tech]], to the northeast of [[Amélie-les-Bains]] and to the east of [[Montbolo]].

== History ==
The first mention of Palalda is from the year 814, as being the western limit of the territory of [[Céret]].

On 1 October 1942, the commune of Palalda is linked to [[Amélie-les-Bains]] to create the new commune of [[Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda]].<ref name="pcpo"/>

{{Coord|42|29|02|N|2|40|29|E|type:city(10)_region:FR|display=title}}

== Politics and administration ==
=== Canton ===
In 1790, Palalda is included in the [[canton of Arles-sur-Tech|canton of Arles]], which remains the same after being united to Amélie-les-bains in 1942.<ref name="pcpo">Jean-Pierre Pélissier, Paroisses et communes de France : dictionnaire d'histoire administrative et démographique, vol. 66 : Pyrénées-Orientales, Paris, CNRS, 1986</ref>

=== Mayors ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Beginning !! End !! Name<ref>[http://www.francegenweb.org/mairesgenweb/resultcommune.php?id=2010 MairesGenWeb]</ref>
|-
| ||  || 
|-
| 1844 || 1847 || François Vilascèque
|-
| 1847 || 1849 || Martin Bardetis
|-
| 1849 || 16.4.1855 || Martin Pagès
|-
| 16.5.1855 || 2.5.1857 || Martin Forga
|-
| 2.5.1857 || 1870 || Jean Cambouliu
|-
| 1870 || 2.1874 || François Alduy
|-
| 2.1874 || 8.10.1876 || Jean Bartre
|-
| 8.10.1876 || 30.9.1883 || Sauveur Dalmau
|-
| 30.9.1883 || 21.5.1884 || Pierre Dejaule
|-
| 21.5.1884 || 20.5.1888 || Joseph Cabanes
|-
| 20.5.1888 || 26.11.1899 || Laurent Alduy
|-
| 26.11.1899 || 15.5.1904 || Joseph Dagues (father)
|-
| 15.05.1904 || 25.5.1914 || Joseph Dagues (son)
|-
| 25.5.1914 || 10.12.1919 || Louis Villacèque
|-
| 10.12.1919 || 22.12.1921 || François Dagues
|-
| 22.12.1921 || 24.1.1922 || Jean Garrigue
|-
| 29.1.1922 || 17.5.1925 || Joseph Pauly
|-
| 17.5.1925 || 19.5.1929 || Antoine Forga
|-
| 19.5.1929 || 19.5.1935 || Joseph Baux
|-
| 19.5.1935 || 27.7.1941 || Michel Fons
|-
| 21.8.1941 || 1.10.1942 || Marti
|}

== Demography ==
;Ancien Régime
Population under the [[Ancien Régime]] is calculated either in number of ''[[feu fiscal]]'' (''f'', fire tax), or in number of inhabitants (''H'').
{{Demography
|1378=21 f|1470=10 f|1515=14 f|1553=14 f|1709=101 f|1720=100 f|1730=112 f|1767=546 H|1774=120 f|1789=200 f|1790=646 H
| source = Jean-Pierre Pélissier, Paroisses et communes de France : dictionnaire d'histoire administrative et démographique, vol. 66 : Pyrénées-Orientales, Paris, CNRS, 1986
}}

;Modern times
{{Demography
|1794=397|1796=529|1800=522|1804=524|1806=573|1820=594|1826=610|1831=614|1836=655|1841=710|1846=772|1851=783|1856=758|1861=757|1866=839
|1872=810|1876=908|1881=850|1886=800|1891=1117|1896=914|1901=800|1906=886|1911=953|1921=902|1926=1142|1931=1172|1936=1363
| source = Jean-Pierre Pélissier, Paroisses et communes de France : dictionnaire d'histoire administrative et démographique, vol. 66 : Pyrénées-Orientales, Paris, CNRS, 1986
}}

== Sites of interest ==
* The romanesque church of Saint Martin, built in the 12th century and partly rebuilt between the 15th and 16th centuries.

[[File:Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda 007.jpg|thumb|center|Saint Martin church]]

== Culture ==
;Poetry
* ''Confidences d'un moutard parisien'' (1912) is a poem by the writer Marc Anfossi<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vieuxpapierspo.blogspot.fr/2015/06/ode-environs-amelie-les-bains.html |title=Ode aux environs d'Amélie-les-Bains en 1912  |author=Fabricio Cardenas |date=24 June 2015 |website=Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales |language=fr |access-date=26 April 2016}}</ref> which mentions Palalda, [[Montbolo]] and [[Montalba-d'Amélie]].

== Notable people ==
*[[Jean Trescases]], a French military was born in Palalda

== See also ==
{{commons category|Palalda}}
* [[Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department]]

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Former communes of Pyrénées-Orientales]]


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