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  1. Positionnée sur un espace littoral, Saint-Denis est aujourd'hui la capitale et le siège de la préfecture de la région-département de La Réunion. Possédant un réseau routier développé, la cité dionysienne est le principal bassin économique de l'île, où se concentrent de nombreux services et administrations.

  2. Saint-Denis est une commune française située au nord du département et de la région de La Réunion. Elle est la 19 e commune de France avec 144 238 habitants, la plus importante d' outre-mer. Elle est au centre de la 40 e unité urbaine de France et la 2e d'outre-mer, avec 175 053 habitants.

  3. Le centre-ville de Saint-Denis, parfois appelé le Grand Carré, est le centre-ville de la commune de Saint-Denis, le chef-lieu de l' île de La Réunion, un département d'outre-mer français dans le sud-ouest de l' océan Indien.

    • arrondissement de Saint-Denis
    • France
    • Saint-Denis
    • La Réunion
    • Foundation
    • 18th Century and Napoleonic Wars
    • Prosperity and Urban Development
    • Stagnation
    • Urban Expansion
    • 1991 Chaudron Riots

    Saint-Denis was founded in 1669 by Étienne Regnault, the first governor of Bourbon Island (as La Réunion was then called), on the northern side of the island, where a larger and more fertile plain was deemed more propitious for the development of settlements than the drier and more barren area of Saint-Paulon the western side of the island. Saint-P...

    Soon after 1738, work was started to establish a seaport in the little bay of Le Barachois, on the eastern side of the Saint-Denis River, to replace the port of Saint-Paul, but its site did not offer a safe haven, due to unpredictable winds and tides, as well as frequent high surf which forced ships to unload their cargo in the open roadstead away ...

    In the 18th century, cultivation of coffee had ensured the development of Saint-Denis. Warehouses in Saint-Denis stored the coffee beans before their export to Europe from the port of Saint-Denis. In the 19th century, following France's loss of its largest sugar colonies of Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and the Isle of France (Mauritius) as a result of th...

    Saint-Denis was struck by the third cholera pandemic in 1859, the first time cholera was returning to Réunion since 1820. During the outbreaks of cholera in Mauritius in 1854 and 1856, strict sanitary measures forbidding the landing of ships in Réunion had prevented the disease from reaching the island. In 1859, however, a ship transporting indentu...

    After World War II, Saint-Denis entered a new period of population growth and urban development. In February 1945, Air France opened an air route between Paris and Saint-Denis, the first air route linking Réunion with metropolitan France: operated once a week, it took 5 days and 14 stopovers to reach Paris from Saint-Denis. In June 1946, the newer ...

    Economic development and rising incomes, thanks to financial transfers from metropolitan France, led after the 1960s to a Westernization of the local culture and the emergence of a consumer society: TV sets became ubiquitous, large hypermarkets appeared on the outskirts of the city as in metropolitan French cities, selling many products imported fr...

  4. Saint-Denis est la préfecture et la plus grande ville de l'île-département français de La Réunion. Elle se situe au nord de l'île et en est, grâce à son aéroport, son point d'entrée principal.

  5. L'arrondissement de Saint-Denis est une division administrative française, située dans le département et la région de La Réunion. L'arrondissement de Saint-Denis a un homonyme exact, dans le département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.

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