Sainte-Osmane

Sainte-Osmane
Part of Val-d'Étangson
The church of Sainte-Osmane
Location of Sainte-Osmane
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Coordinates: 47°53′28″N 0°36′36″E
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Sarthe
Arrondissement	Mamers
Canton	Saint-Calais
Commune	Val-d'Étangson
Area ^1	12 km^2 (5 sq mi)
Population  (2019)[1]	174
• Density	15/km^2 (38/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Osmanien, Osmanienne
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	72120
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Sainte-Osmane (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t ɔsman]) is a former commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Val-d'Étangson.[2] The 17th-century French Benedictine Ambroise Janvier (1613–1682) was born in the village.

The commune is named after Saint Osmanna, who hermitage was said to be there, afterwards the site of a church.[3]

See also

• Communes of the Sarthe department

References

1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
2. Arrêté préfectoral 13 September 2018 (in French)
3. O'Hanlon, John (1873), Lives of the Irish saints, p. 240, retrieved 2021-08-02