Montaut () is a
commune
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in the
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
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department
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in south-western
France
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.
Geography
Location
Montaut is situated at the east of the department, 25 km south-east of
Pau. The commune is bordering the department of
Hautes-Pyrénées
Hautes-Pyrénées (; Gascon/Occitan: ''Nauts Pirenèus / Hauts Pirenèus'' awts piɾeˈnɛʊs es, Altos Pirineos; ca, Alts Pirineus alts piɾiˈneʊs English: Upper Pyrenees) is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France. ...
.
Access
The commune is served by departmental roads 212, 812 and 937 and Line 0535 of the regional buses in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Montaut-Bétharram station has rail connections to Tarbes, Pau, Bordeaux and Bayonne.
Hydrography
The lands of the commune are watered by the Gave of Pau, tributary 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 ...
, and by its tributaries, the stream of Siot (fed on Montaut by the streams of the Uchas and Bignes) and the Mouscle, itself joined on the commune by the stream, the Mousclère.
Places and Hamlets
*Annette
* Loustau
* Pasquine
* Village
* Hameau d'en Bas
* Hameau d'en Haut
* Content
* Sarusse
Toponymy
The toponym Montaut appears in the forms ''Mont-Altus'' and the ''bastide of Montaut'' (12835
[Paul Raymond (archiviste), Paul Raymond, ''Dictionnaire topographique Béarn-Pays basque''] and the 14th century respectively, titles of Béarn
[Titres de la vicomté de Béarn - Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques]) and Montaud (15355,
reformation of Béarn
).
Its Bearnese name is ''Montaut'' or ''Mountaut''.
[.]
History
Montaut is a former
bastide
Bastides are fortified new towns built in medieval Languedoc, Gascony, Aquitaine, England and Wales during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, although some authorities count Mont-de-Marsan and Montauban, which was founded in 1144, as the f ...
founded in 1327
by Marguerite de Moncade, the grandmother of Gaston III de Foix-Béarn. The original Bastidian plan still includes the remains of its past.
See also
*
Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department
The following is a list of the 546 Communes of France, communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 202 ...
References
Communes of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
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