Saint-Martin-d'Hères

Saint-Martin-d'Hères is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Part of the Grenoble urban unit , it is the largest suburb of the city of Grenoble and is adjacent to it on the east.The commune was created around 1100 where the church of St. Martin was located. During the middle ages it was administered at some points by the lords of the Castle of Gières, and at other times by the bishop of Grenoble, who had religious and seigniorial disputes with the former. The city remained a mostly rural area, until the 19th century, when it saw its first industrial developments with the opening of roads and railways. In the 1950s and the 1960s the city saw a "new era" with a significant demographic expansion caused by the installation of the University of Grenoble.

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