Anhauze
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 Anhaux
Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
Anhaux
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| Coordinates: 43°10′N 1°17′W / 43.17°N 1.29°WCoordinates: 43°10′N 1°17′W / 43.17°N 1.29°W | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
| Arrondissement | Bayonne | |
| Canton | Montagne Basque | |
| Intercommunality | Pays Basque | |
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| • Mayor (2014-2020) | André Changala | |
| Area1 | 12.33 km2 (4.76 sq mi) | |
| Population (2014)2 | 385 | |
| • Density | 31/km2 (81/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 64026 /64220 | |
| Elevation | 180–1,247 m (591–4,091 ft) (avg. 189 m or 620 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Anhaux (Basque: Anhauze) is a French commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France in the former province of Lower Navarre.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Anhauztar.
Anhaux is located some 2 km west of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and some 10 km south of Ossès. Access to the commune is solely by country roads branching from the D15 road passing to the north of the commune. The commune consists of farmland in the north with the southern part more rugged and hilly.
The commune is located in the drainage basin of the Adour. The Ontzeroneker erreka' - a tributary of the Nive d'Arnéguy - with many tributaries rising in the commune forms the southern border with Lasse commune. A right tributary of the Berroko erreka, the Aparraineko erreka flows down from the Artzaïnharria (971 m).
The Napoleonic land registry divided the commune into 16 districts in 1840:
Heguy was an old district, extending that of Choubitoa.
Today, the following localities are listed:
The commune name in basque is Anhauze.
Brigitte Jobbé-Duval proposed a basque origin of ona-oz, meaning "place of the hill".
The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.
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Origins:
Anhaux village is one of eleven hamlets or villages which were in the Baigorry Valley. In the Middle Ages, the eleven hamlets were: Ascarat, Sorhoeta, Moussourits, Lasse, Irouleguy, Urdos, Leispars, Occos, Oticoren, Guermiette, and Anhauz, all in the north of the valley. The south was not populated until much later. Despite sounding Basque, the name of this village seems to defy all analysis. The oldest document known on which the name Anhaux appears is now the cartulary of the abbey of Saint-Jean of Sorde where it appears in the 10th century.
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