Salers

For other uses, see Salers (disambiguation).

Salers
The town hall in Salers
Coat of arms
Salers
Location within Auvergne region Salers
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Cantal
Arrondissement	Mauriac
Canton	Salers
Intercommunality	Pays de Salers
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean Maltcheff
Area1	4.85 km2 (1.87 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	364
• Density	75/km2 (190/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	15219 / 15140
Elevation	830–1,207 m (2,723–3,960 ft) (avg. 951 m or 3,120 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Salers (French pronunciation: ​[saˈlɛʁ], Occitan: Salèrn) is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France.

It is famous for the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) cheeses Cantal and Salers. It is also famous for the Salers breed of cattle that originated in this commune.

It was pillaged by Rodrigo de Villandrando in the late 1430s, during the final phase of the Hundred Years' War.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	1,134	—
1806	1,497	+32.0%
1820	1,183	−21.0%
1831	1,286	+8.7%
1841	1,243	−3.3%
1851	1,026	−17.5%
1861	985	−4.0%
1872	1,033	+4.9%
1876	1,026	−0.7%
1881	1,049	+2.2%
1886	1,019	−2.9%
1891	1,015	−0.4%
1896	907	−10.6%
1901	887	−2.2%
1906	760	−14.3%
1911	743	−2.2%
1921	603	−18.8%
1926	620	+2.8%
1931	630	+1.6%
1936	608	−3.5%
1946	558	−8.2%
1954	561	+0.5%
1962	533	−5.0%
1968	521	−2.3%
1975	480	−7.9%
1982	451	−6.0%
1990	439	−2.7%
1999	401	−8.7%
2008	364	−9.2%

See also

• Communes of the Cantal department

References

• INSEE