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Aytua ( ca, Aituà) is a former commune in
Pyrénées-Orientales Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean Sea. ...
(
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
).


Geography

Aytua is located east of the commune of
Escaro Escaro (; ca, Escaró) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Localisation Escaro is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. History On 20 Marc ...
and northwest of Thorrent, another former commune.


History

Originally independent, since 20 March 1822, it is linked with Escaro.Jean-Pierre Pélissier, Paroisses et communes de France : dictionnaire d'histoire administrative et démographique, vol. 66 : Pyrénées-Orientales, Paris, CNRS, 1986


Politics and administration


Mayors


Sites of interest

* Saint-Christine chapel, from the 16th century.


Notes

Former communes of Pyrénées-Orientales {{PyrénéesOrientales-geo-stub