Planoise is a new urban zone created at the end of the 1960s because of the high demography of the city (Besançon). Before the buildings, there were a lot of farms and some monuments. This hamlet was transformed into a real little town within a decade.
After the World War II, a lot of buildings and infrastructures were destroyed in Besançon, and the demographic boom took place in this time. The municipality had to take a decision: the construction of a new urban zone, Planoise.
| Sector | Date of construction | Builder |
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| Flandres-Dunkerque street – Champagne street- Reims street | 1968 | SAIEMB |
| Franche-Comté street | 1968 | SAIEMB et OMHLM |
| Jean Moulin place – Bourgogne avenue – Dijon street | 1968 | SAIEMB et OMHLM |
| Brabant street – Malines street – Bruxelles street – Île-de-France avenue | 1970 | SCI et ODHLM |
| Cologne street – Fribourg street | 1970 | CRL |
| Fribourg street – Cologne street | 1971 | OMHLM |
| Picardie street – Artois street | 1972 | SCI |
| Brabant street – Savoie street – Ile-de-France avenue | 1972 | ODHLM et CRL |
| Savoie street – Piémont street | 1973 | OMHLM et ODHLM |
| Bourgogne avenue – Languedoc street | 1976 | CRL |
| Cologne street – Île-de-France avenue – Causses street – Piémont street | 1977 | OMHLM |
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Colonial military units composed of African Muslims were stationed in Besançon and the Franche-Comté from the 1870s to World War I to augment the French army and protect its frontiers during its conflicts with Germany. Large-scale immigration of Muslims to France began in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1981, the Center of Islam of the Franche-Comté was created, as the sunna association was formed in 1987. In 2010, Islam was the second largest religion in Besançon after Catholicism. According to a report by France Bleu Besançon in 2010, 15,000 Muslims live in Besançon and comprise about 13% of the city's population.
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The Siege of Besançon was an event during the War of the Sixth Coalition, which occurred in 1814 in Besançon (Franche-Comté), France. The First French Empire, commanded by Napoleon I, engaged in battles with a number of European powers in the early 1800s.
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