Escoville

{{Infobox French commune

|image = FranceNormandieEscovilleEglise.jpg

|caption = Saint-Laurent

|commune status = Commune

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Escoville 14.svg

|name = Escoville

|arrondissement = Lisieux

|canton = Troarn

|INSEE = 14246

|postal code = 14850

|mayor = Christophe Cliquet{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=9 August 2021|language=fr}}

|term = 2020–2026

|intercommunality = CC Normandie-Cabourg-Pays d'Auge

|coordinates = {{coord|49.2111|-0.2369|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation min m = 13

|elevation max m = 42

|area km2 = 5.18

|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

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Escoville is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France, with a population of 803 people as of 2017.Population municipale 2017.

Population

{{Historical populations

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1962|321|

1968|417|

1975|460|

1982|438|

1990|623|

1999|626|

2008|726

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Geography

Escoville is located 5 kilometers north of Troarn, 11 kilometers northeast of Caen, 14 kilometers south of Cabourg, and 35 kilometers from Deauville. Escoville is part of the urban area of Caen.

Toponymy

The name of the locality is attested in the form Scotvilla in 1101 (note AG according to the Red Cartulary of Troarn) ; Escoldivilla in 1109 (Dictionnaire topographique, according to the cartulary of Troarn) ; Scolvilla in 1156 - 1161 (act H 2, 169); Escotvilla in 1201 (AC,H 941) ; Ecovilla in 1128 (charter of Sainte-Barbe) ; Escovilla in 1208 (Charter of the abbey of Aunay).Topographical dictionary of the department of Calvados, p. 106.François de Beaurepaire préface Michel Tamine), Les noms de lieux du Calvados (annotated by Dominique Fournier), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2022, p. 172

Albert Dauzat and, following him, Ernest Nègre consider that the first element Escold- represents the Germanic personal name Ascald(us),Marie-Thérèse Morlet, Personal names in the territory of ancient Gaul, I, 42b. variant form Ascolt,Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France, Paris, Librairie Guénégaud 1979 (réédition), p. 270b while there is no ancient form in As-. Furthermore, they did not know the first form Scotvilla, which is entirely compatible with the evolutions Escotvilla > Ecovilla (type scola > escole > école), but not really with *Ascaldvilla > Escoldivilla or *Ascoltvilla > Escoldivilla, we should end up in *Escauville in one case and *Escouville in the other. This is why François de Beaurepaire identifies the ethnic scot as "Scottish" (Scot as "the Scotsman" cf. surname Lescot, modern French l'Écossais).

Homonymy with Escoville (Seine-Maritime, Saint-Laurent-de-Brèvedent, Escoville par. de Saint-Laurent d’Esquetot, 1558). The name (E)scoville has evolved into the English last names Scoville (Anglo-Norman form), Scovill, Scoffield, Schofield, and Scourfield.

References

External links

[http://www.escoville.fr Official site]

Category:Communes of Calvados (department)

Category:Calvados communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia