Suze | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Die |
Canton: | Crest |
Insee: | 26346 |
Postal Code: | 26400 |
Mayor: | Bérangère Driay[1] |
Term: | 2021 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Val de Drôme en Biovallée |
Coordinates: | 44.7603°N 5.1133°W |
Elevation Min M: | 239 |
Elevation Max M: | 730 |
Area Km2: | 14.43 |
Suze (in French pronounced as /syz/; Occitan (post 1500);: Susa) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France in the foothills of the Alps, its buildings are in a steeply-sloped village above a small tributary feeding into the Drôme which runs from the east into the Rhône.
The village has a cross to Saint Pancras and has a medieval Roman Catholic church.
Suze is centred northeast of Crest, the main population and the administrative centre of the canton. Gigors-et-Lozeron, Beaufort-sur-Gervanne, Cobonne, Aouste-sur-Sye, Mirabel-et-Blacons and Montclar-sur-Gervanne border Suze.
The name is a corruption of segusia, 'forceful', given to various elevated strongholds, made up of the components sego meaning 'force or vigour', and a suffix . The same etymology describes Suze-la-Rousse to the south in Drôme and in Piedmont, Italy: Susa, which has a French name, .