Abidos, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Abidos

Main Street of Abidos

Coat of arms
Abidos

Coordinates: 43°23′59″N 0°37′23″W / 43.3997°N 0.6231°WCoordinates: 43°23′59″N 0°37′23″W / 43.3997°N 0.6231°W
Country France
Region Aquitaine
Department Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement Pau
Canton Lagor
Intercommunality Lacq
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2020) Jean-Claude Mirassou
Area1 3.06 km2 (1.18 sq mi)
Population (2009)2 233
 • Density 76/km2 (200/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 64003 / 64150
Elevation 86–170 m (282–558 ft)
(avg. 95 m or 312 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Abidos is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Aquitaine region of south-western France.

Geography

Abidos is a Béarnais commune located some 13 km south-east of Orthez and 4 km north of Mourenx on the south side of the Gave de Pau. Access to the commune is by the D31 road from Le Bourguet in the north turning west in the commune to access the village and continuing south-west to join the D9. The D33 road from Noguères in the south-east passes through the commune east of the village and joins the D31 as it turns west. The commune has an industrial area in the south-west with the rest of the commune mainly farmland.[1]

The Gave de Pau forms the north-eastern border of the commune and also passes through the northern corner of the commune as it flows north-west to join the Gave d'Oloron at Peyrehorade. The Baïse river flows through the centre of the commune from the south-east and joins the Gave de Pau in the commune. The Luzoué also flows from the south-east through the west of the commune to join the Gave de Pau.[1]

Places and hamlets[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages[1]

Toponymy

The name Abidos appears in the forms:

Michel Grosclaude offers a Latin etymology of Avitus plus the Aquitaine suffix -ossum "domain of Avitus".

Its name in Béarnais is Avidos (according to the classical norm).

History

Paul Raymond[3] notes that in 1385, Abidos had 18 fires and depended on the bailiwicks of Lagor and Pardies. Abidos had a castle with an attached door across the Pau river.

Heraldry

 Blazon:

Azure, the crested osprey in argent beaked and membered in gules, perched on a bone of death also argent posed in fess.

Administration

Abidos Town Hall

List of Successive Mayors of Abidos

From To Name Party Position
1968 2008 Léon Guilhamélou-Sempé UMP
2008 2020 Jean-Claude Mirassou

(Not all data is known)

Inter-communality

Abidos is a member of seven inter-communal organisations:[11]

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 236 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the town since 1793. From the 21st century a census of municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.[Note 1] [Note 2]

Evolution of the Population (See database)
1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851
225 230 203 241 238 229 207 222 222
1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896
237 216 227 208 229 204 212 182 186
1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954
184 190 183 170 162 149 149 109 147
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2007 2008
255 226 184 187 188 200 226 230 233
2009 2010 - - - - - - -
233 236 - - - - - - -

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Economy

The 2006 classification by INSEE, indicated that the median household incomes for each municipality with more than 50 households (30,687 communes out of the 36,681 communes identified)[12] classed Abidos to rank at No. 10,338, with an average income of €17,174.

The town is part of the zone designation of Ossau-iraty.

Culture and heritage

Abidos Church
Front of the Church

Religious Heritage

There is an old chapel at Abidos castle.

Environmental heritage

An arboretum created by the community of communes of Lacq and the Abengoa BioEnergy France company, is located behind the village hall.

Also found in Abydos, a mill with its canal. The path of Naöu means an unencumbered way along the Pau river (phonetic transcription of nau is bateau in Béarnais).

Facilities

Education

The commune has a school with two classrooms for primary school, a school canteen, and a library.

Sports and sports equipment

The town has a sports field in the centre with a football field, basketball court, volleyball court, and tennis courts. There is also a sports hall equipped for basketball, tennis and Basque pelota. Lastly there is a roller skate park for BMX edge of the Baise.

Notable People linked to the commune

See also

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Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 , the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" which allow, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For municipalities with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these municipalities is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force in 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.
  2. ↑ In the census table and the graph, by convention in Wikipedia, and to allow a fair comparison between five yearly censuses, the principle has been retained for subsequent legal populations since 1999 displayed in the census table and the graph that shows populations for the years 2006, 2011, 2016, etc.. , as well as the latest legal population published by INSEE
  3. ↑ See "Compagnonnage" in the French Wikipedia

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Google Maps
  2. ↑ Géoportail, IGN, (French)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011, p. 2 (French)
  4. ↑ Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn (French)
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Michel Grosclaude, Topnymical Dictionary of communes, Béarn, Ed. Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, ISBN 2-35068-005-3, p. 120-121
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Cartulary of the Abbey of Lucq, Pierre de Marca, History of Béarn (French)
  7. ↑ Manuscript of the 14th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
  8. ↑ Notaries of Pardies - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
  9. ↑ Manuscript of the 16th to the 18th centuries - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French)
  10. ↑ Cassini Map 1750 - Abidos
  11. ↑ Intercommunality of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Cellule informatique préfecture 64, consulted on 9 November 2011
  12. ↑ Statistical Summary by Commune, département, and area of employment, website of INSEE, consulted on 9 September 2009
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