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Corseul Kersaout
Commune
Roman ruins
Coat of arms
Location of Corseul
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Coordinates: 48°28′57″N 2°10′08″W / 48.4825°N 2.1689°W / 48.4825; -2.1689
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Côtes-d'Armor
Arrondissement	Dinan
Canton	Plancoët
Intercommunality	Dinan Agglomération
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Alain Jan^[1]
Area ¹	41.74 km² (16.12 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	2,223
• Density	53/km² (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	22048 /22130
Elevation	13–126 m (43–413 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Corseul (French pronunciation: [kɔʁsœl]; Breton: Kersaout; Gallo: Corsoeut) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department of Brittany in northwestern France.

The town was a major Roman town and contains Roman ruins. The town hall contains a small archaeological museum.^[3]

History

Corseul was called Fanum Martis ("Temple of Mars") in Latin and was the capital of the Gallo-Roman province of Coriosolites. It was founded in 10 BC.^[4] In the 3rd and 4th centuries, like many other cities, Fanum Martis was renamed for its people, the Curiosolitae. This name change occurred as the Roman Empire weakened and paralleled a revival of the ancient Gallic gods in local religious sculptures and dedicatory inscriptions.^[5]

Some 1.5 kilometres to the southeast, at Haut-Bécherel, stand the prominent remains of an extensive Roman temple sanctuary, built at the time of Nero and Vespasian.^[6]

Population

Inhabitants of Corseul are called coriosolites or curiosolites in French.

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,925	—
1975	1,955	+0.22%
1982	2,022	+0.48%
1990	1,987	−0.22%
1999	1,977	−0.06%
2007	1,937	−0.26%
2012	2,085	+1.48%
2017	2,184	+0.93%
Source: INSEE^[7]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ "Official site" (in French). Commune of Corseul. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
^ H Kérébel, "Évolution d'un chef-lieu de cité au cours de la première moitié du Ier siècle: Corseul (Fanum Martis), capitale de la cité des Coriosolites" Les villes de la Gaulle lyonnaise, 1996, reports on excavations since 1984; some finds from the site are conserved in the town museum and in the Musée Archéologique at Rennes.
^ "Corseul, capitale romaine des Coriosolites" (in French). armorance.free.fr. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
^ Louis Gouipeau, "La datation archéomagnétique du temple du Haut-Bécherel à Corseul", Revue Archéologique de l'Ouest 1984.1:pp84-88.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE