Alos-Sibas-Abense

Alos-Sibas-Abense

Aloze-Ziboze-Onizegaine
Alos-Sibas-Abense Aloze-Ziboze-Onizegaine
Commune
	The church of Alos
	Coat of arms
	Location of Alos-Sibas-Abense
	Alos-Sibas-Abense Alos-Sibas-Abense
	Coordinates: 43°07′12″N 0°52′29″W / 43.12°N 0.8747°W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Canton	Montagne Basque
Intercommunality	CA Pays Basque
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Jean-Pierre Iriart
Area 1	5.78 km2 (2.23 sq mi)
Population (2021)	320
• Density	55/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64017 /64470
Elevation	204–414 m (669–1,358 ft) ; (avg. 221 m or 725 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Alos-Sibas-Abense (Basque: Aloze-Ziboze-Onizegaine) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.

It is located in the former province of Soule.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aloztar-Ziboztar-Oniztar^[2]

Geography

Alos-Sibas-Abense is located some 90 km south-east of Bayonne and 80m km west of Lourdes. The D918 road runs down the eastern border of the commune, but does not enter. Access to the commune is on road D247 from Alcay-Alcabehety-Sunharette in the southwest which runs through the heart of the commune to the village. It then continues to the southeast linking with the D918 at Tardets-Sorholus. Most of the commune is farmland with some forest and it has a network of country roads covering most of the commune.^[3]

Hydrography

Located in the Drainage basin of the Adour, the Saison river passes along and forms the eastern border of the commune parallel with the D918 road. The Aphoura stream (18 km), which is fed by the Ardounc, the Batasse (10.1 km), the Laritolle, the Jaga, and the Uthurrotche erreka, flows near the village and to the Saisson.

Places and hamlets^[4]

Abense
Althondo
Ansola
Barnech
Basterrèche
Basterreix
Belle-Sise
Canderats
Choy-Cantaguia
Curutchet
Domec^[5]
Eskiéta
Etchandy
Eyhéra
Hastoy
Mendiondoa
Mendisquer^[5]
Ohix
La Papeterie
Péko Urupéa
Quihillaborda
La Salle^[5]
Samalgagna
Sibas
Uhalte-Borde

Toponymy

The commune name in Basque is Aloze-Ziboze-Onizegaine.^[6]

The Basque form of Sibas can be Ziboz(e) or Ziborotz(e).^[7]

Jean-Baptiste Orpustan^[7] suggested that Abense came from a Roman phonetic change to the Basque Oniz > onise > oénse > auénse > abense. The base of the name is the oronym ona, also present in Bayonne and Oneix. The modern Basque form (Onizegañia,^[7] Onizegañe^[7] or Omiz(e)^[7]) are equivalent to "Upper" (gain(e)a > gañia).

Brigitte Jobbé-Duval^[6] suggests that Oniz is the name of a noble Basque family.

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Alos	Alos	1327	Orpustan	190		Village
	Alos	1338	Orpustan	190
	Alos	1375	Raymond	5	Luntz
	Alos in terra de Soule	1405	Raymond	5	Gascon roles
	Alos in terra de Sole	1405	Orpustan	190
	Alos	1690	Orpustan	190
	Alos	1750	Cassini

Sibas	Sivas	1178	Raymond	161	Duchesne	Village
	Sivas	1327	Orpustan	191
	Sent-Martin de Silvez	1520	Raymond	161	Soule
	Sibas	1690	Orpustan	191
	Sivas	1690	Orpustan	191
	Sibas	1750	Cassini

Abense	Evense	1337	Orpustan	189		Village
	Abense prope Tardetz	1385	Raymond	2	Duchesne
	Avense pres tardets	1520	Orpustan	189
	prop Tardetz Avense	1690	Orpustan	189
	Abense de Haut	1750	Cassini
	Abense de Haut	1793	EHESS
	Abeuze	1801	EHESS		Bulletin des lois
	Abense-de-Haut	1863	Raymond	1

Domec	Domec	1385	Raymond	55	Duchesne	Fief, depended on the Viscounts of Soule and its title counted as one of the ten potestats of Soule

Mendisquer	Menrisqueta	1385	Raymond	111	Duchesne	Fief, vassal of the Viscounts of Soule

La Salle	La Sale de Sibas	1455	Raymond	153	Duchesne	Fief, vassal of the Viscounts of Soule

Sources:

Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy^[7]
Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)^[5]
Cassini: 1750 Cassini Map (in French)
EHESS: Abense on the Ldh/EHESS/Cassini database (in French)

Origins:

Luntz:^[8]
Soule: Customs of Soule^[9]
Duchesne: Duchesne collection volume CXIV^[10]

Town Hall at Alos
Old Hilarri at Alos
The Church of Sibas
Old Hilarri at Sibas
Trinity Bell Tower at the Church of Abense
Hilarri at Abense

History

Sibas merged with Alos on 23 October 1843 to form Alos-Sibas. On 16 April 1859, following the annexation of part of the territory of Abense-de-Haut, the commune took the name of Alos-Sibas-Abense.

On the same day the commune of Abense-de-Haut disappeared, its territory being divided between Alos-Sibas and Tardets.

Heraldry

Arms of Alos-Sibas-Abense	The motto of the commune is "atzotik biharrera (from yesterday to tomorrow) Blazon: Or, a bridge of three arches argent masoned in sable over a party per fess barry wavy of 4 azure and argent and surmounted by a comma sun gules of eight arms all over a terrace in base of 3 pales; the first Or with a tower in sable turreted windows and door open; the second gules a plume argent in an inkpot sable; the third azure 3 commas argent inverted in chief.

Administration

Lists of Successive Mayors of Alos-Sibas-Abense^[11]

Until 1843

Alos

From	To	Name
1796	1798	Alexis Carriquert
1798	1799	Pierre Queheille
1799	1824	Jean Bastereche
1824	1836	Jean d'Arthex
1836	1845	Arnaud Sallabert

Sibas

From	To	Name
1795	1798	Jean Carrique
1798	1808	Philippe Etchart
1808	1813	Jean Harritchague
1813	1825	Jean Carrique
1825	1832	Jean-Pierre d'Arthez-Lassalle
1832	1845	Dominique Erbin called Etchecopar

Abense-de-Haut

From	To	Name
1793	1795	André Etchart
1795	1806	Jean Althabegoity called Oliberou
1806	1810	Arnaud Irigonegaray
1810	1816	Jean-Baptiste Detchandy
1816	1824	Casimir Etchebarne
1824	1848	Jean-Baptiste Detchandy

Until 1859

Alos-Sibas

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1845	1847	Arnaud Sallabert
1847	1859	Jules Basterreche

Abense-de-Haut

From	To	Name
1848	1848	André Etchart
1848	1852	Jean Etchecopar dit Etchahoun
1852	1859	Laurent Maytie

After 1859

Alos-Sibas-Abense

From	To	Name
1859	1871	Jules Basterreche
1871	1875	Arnaud André d'Arthez Lassale
1875	1881	Jules Basterreche
1881	1888	Pierre Arainty
1888	1896	Pierre Arrospidegaray
1896	1900	Jean-Pierre Mendicouague
1900	1904	Arnaud Ibar
1904	1912	Arnaud Cocosteguy
1912	1916	Bernard Larragneguy
1916	1918	Bernard Mondot
1918	1919	Bernard Larragneguy
1919	1929	Jean Iriart
1929	1939	Pierre Marmissole
1939	1940	Joseph Etchart
1940	1951	Pierre Marmissole
1951	1953	Bernard Aguer
1953	1971	Général Pierre Montjean
1971	1983	Pierre Luchillo
1983	2001	Pierre-Clémént Iratçabal
2001	2008	Anne-Marie Etcheberry
2008	2014	Jean-Pierre Iriart

Intercommunality

The town is part of six intercommunal structures:^[12]

the community of communes of Soule-Xiberoa
the union to support Basque culture
SIVOM of the canton of Tardets
the municipal association for the gaves of Oloron and Mauleon
SIVU for Tourism in Haute-Soule and Barétous
the AEP Union for Soule country

Demography

In 2009 the commune had 274 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]}

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Economy

Economic activity is mainly focused on agriculture (livestock and pasture). The town is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée zone of Ossau-iraty.

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

Etchandia House, formerly owned by the Etchandy family.
La Salle d'Abense

Religious heritage

The Church of Abense contains a Processional Cross (15th century) which is registered as an historical object.^[13]

Environmental heritage

The common practices Controlled burns^[14] for prevention of forest fires.

Facilities

The town has an early childhood hub (Child care centre and a creche) and an Ikastola.

Notes and references

Notes

^ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 [1] Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, 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 on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Inhabitants of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
^ ^a ^b Google Maps
^ Géoportail, IGN (in French)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)
^ ^a ^b Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of Placenames - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (in French)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, p. 189-191, ISBN 2 86781 396 4 (in French)
^ Contracts retained by Luntz, Notary of Béarn, in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)
^ Customs of Soule in 1520, printed at Pau in 1760
^ Duchesne Collection, volumes 99 to 114, containing the papers of Oihenart, former Imperial Librarian - Bibliothèque nationale de France
^ List of Mayors of France (in French)
^ Intercommunality of Pyrénées-Atlantiques^{[permanent dead link]}, Cellule informatique préfecture 64, consulted on 9 November 2011
^ Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64000028 Processional Cross (in French)
^ Alos-Sibas-Abense Archived 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine

[13] At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 [1] Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, 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 on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

[popleg2021-1] "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.

[2] Inhabitants of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)

[Google-3] Google Maps

[Géo-4] Géoportail, IGN (in French)

[Raymond-5] Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011 (in French)

[Jobbé-6] Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, Dictionary of Placenames - Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 2009, Archives and Culture, ISBN 978-2-35077-151-9 (in French)

[Orpustan-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, p. 189-191, ISBN 2 86781 396 4 (in French)

[8] Contracts retained by Luntz, Notary of Béarn, in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (in French)

[Soule-9] Customs of Soule in 1520, printed at Pau in 1760

[Duchesne-10] Duchesne Collection, volumes 99 to 114, containing the papers of Oihenart, former Imperial Librarian - Bibliothèque nationale de France

[11] List of Mayors of France (in French)

[12] Intercommunality of Pyrénées-Atlantiques^{[permanent dead link]}, Cellule informatique préfecture 64, consulted on 9 November 2011

[14] Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM64000028 Processional Cross (in French)

[15] Alos-Sibas-Abense Archived 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine

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