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in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Basusartars''.
Ustaritz. The town is in the west of the commune and can be accessed by the D254 road which branches from the D932 on the northern border of the commune and continues through the town west to join the D810 south-west of Biarritz Airport. The D3 comes from the
A63 autoroute
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Exit (Bayonne-Sud) to the town then south forming the western border of the commune and continuing to Arcangues. South-east of the town is another urban area of Betbeder. Much of the commune is urbanised with some areas of forest and meadows. The eastern part next to the D932 contains an industrial estate.
Two bus services pass through and have stops in the commune operated by ''Transports 64'':
*Service 860 Bayonne to Cambo-les-Bains
*Service 880 Bayonne to Arbonne
The commune lies in the drainage basin of the
Adour
The Adour (; eu, Aturri; oc, Ador) is a river in southwestern France. It rises in High-Bigorre (Pyrenees), in the commune of Aspin-Aure, and flows into the Atlantic Ocean (Bay of Biscay) near Bayonne. It is long, of which the uppermost ca. i ...
The commune name in Basque is ''Basusarri''.Euskaltzaindia - Academy of the Basque language Jean-Baptiste Orpustan proposed a structure of ''baso'' meaning "forest" and ''sarri'' meaning "dense" or "tight" giving the overall meaning of "dense forest".Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, ''New Basque Toponymy'' Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, , p. 30-31
The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.
Sources:
* Raymond:'' ''Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees'' 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. ''Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees'' Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011
*Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, '' New Basque Toponymy'' ref name="Orpustan"/>
*Ldh/EHESS/Cassini:
*Lhande:
Pierre Lhande
Pierre Lhande Heguy ( eu, Pierre Allande Hegi) was a French writer. He was born in Bayonne, France on 9 July 1877 and died 17 April 1957 in Tardets, Soule; for unknown reasons he was given his grandfather's surname, Lhande, as opposed to his fa ...
Diocese of Bayonne
The Diocese of Bayonne, Lescar, and Oloron, commonly Diocese of Bayonne, (Latin: ''Dioecesis Baionensis, Lascurrensis et Oloronensis''; French language, French: ''Diocèse de Bayonne, Lescar et Oloron''; Basque language, Basque: ''Baionako, Leskar ...
Kingdom of Navarre
The Kingdom of Navarre (; , , , ), originally the Kingdom of Pamplona (), was a Basque kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, alongside the Atlantic Ocean between present-day Spain and France.
The medieval state took ...
During the Peninsular War on 10 December 1813 Bassussarry was the scene of a battle between General Suchet and the Spanish-English.
Heraldry
Administration
List of Successive
Mayors
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According to the ''Map of the Seven Basque Provinces'' by
Louis Lucien Bonaparte
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Upper Navarrese dialect
Upper Navarrese (sometimes called High Navarrese) is a dialect of the Basque language spoken in the Navarre ( eu, Nafarroa or ''Nafarroa Garaia'') community of Spain, as established by linguist Louis Lucien Bonaparte in his famous 1869 map. He ...
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Notable people linked to the commune
* Dominique Joseph Garat, born in 1749 at Bayonne and died in 1833 at Bassussarry, was a lawyer, journalist, and French philosopher. He was elected to the
Apostolic prefect
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