Romans-sur-Isère is located on the Isère, 20 km (12 mi) northeast of Valence. There are more than 50,000 inhabitants in the urban area (if the neighboring town of Bourg-de-Péage is included). Romans is close to the Vercors.
Historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie wrote Carnaval de Romans (1980) a microhistorical study, based on the only two surviving eyewitness accounts, of the 1580 massacre of about twenty artisans at the annual carnival in the town. He treats the massacre as a microcosm of the political, social and religious conflicts of rural society in the latter half of the 16th century in France.
On 18 July 2017, the town was the end point for Stage Sixteen of the Tour De France.
On 4 April 2020, two people were killed and five wounded in a knife attack, in what the interior minister called a terrorist incident. Prosecutors said the suspect was a Sudaneserefugee in his 30s who lived in the town.[6]
^Bouvier, Jean-Claude (1976) Les parlers provençaux de la Drôme. Étude de géographie phonétique, coll. Bibliothèque française et romane A-33, Paris: Klincksieck, pp. 445-518
^Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Romans-sur-Isère, EHESS(in French).
^Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^"France launches terror probe after knife attack". BBC News. 5 April 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
^"Relations internationales". ville-romans.fr (in French). Romans-sur-Isère. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
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