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Auriac () is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Auriacois'' or ''Auriacoises''.

Geography

Auriac is located some 20 km north of Pau just east of Argelos. Access to the commune is by road D834 from Sarron in the north which passes through the commune and continues to Pau in the south. Access to the village is by road D944 from the village to Thèze in the north-west and the D227 from the village to Sévignacq in the south-east. The A55 autoroute passes through the north of the commune with Exit 9 just north-east of the commune giving access to road D834. The commune is mixed forest and farmland.Google Maps
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Places and hamlets

* Alpin
* Baix
* Bernède
* Blanc
* Calot
* Camot
* Cassagne
* Cazaudehore
* Chin
* Cournau
* Duclos
* Fam
* Hourticq
* Laborde
* Madaune
* Maribat
* Moulin de Mugain
* Mounpézat
* Pénouilh
* Périco
* Pierroulou
* Porte
* Poudgé
* Rey
* Ser (forest)

Géoportail
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Neighbouring communes and villages

Toponymy

The commune name in béarnais is ''Auriac''. Michel Grosclaude said that the name probably comes from the Latin man's name ''Aurius'' with the Gallo-Roman suffix ''-acum'' giving "Domain of Aurius".

The following table shows the origin of the commune name:

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''
p. 17, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011
*Grosclaude: ''Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn'', 2006 Michel Grosclaude, ''Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn'', Edicions reclams & Édition Cairn - 2006, 416 pages,
*Cassini: Cassini Map from 1750Cassini Map 1750 - Auriac
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Origins:

*Marca: Pierre de Marca, ''History of Béarn''. Pierre de Marca, ''History of Béarn'' p. 356

History

Paul Raymond noted that Auriac was once an annex of Argelos.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

;Mayors from 1940

Inter-communality

The commune is part of five inter-communal structures:
* the Communauté de communes des Luys en Béarn;
* the SIVU for collective sanitation Auriac-Miossens-Lanusse-Thèze
* the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
* the inter-communal association for the management of drinking water from the Luy-Gabas-Lées;
* the inter-communal association of Garlède-Lalonquette;

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 238 inhabitants.

Culture and heritage

Civil heritage

The commune has a number of buildings and structures that are registered as historical monuments:
*A House at Porte (16th century)Ministry of Culture, Mérimée
*A House at Cazaudehore (19th century)Ministry of Culture, Mérimée
*Houses and Farms (16th and 19th centuries)

Religious heritage

The commune has two religious buildings that are registered as historical monuments:
*The Parish Church of Saint-François-de-Sales (18th century) (destroyed)
*The Parish Church of Saint-François-de-Sales (1885). This church was built in 1885 to replace the old church of the same name which appeared on the Cassini Map. The Church contains many items that are registered as historical objects:
**The furniture of the church
**A Chasuble (18th century)
**A Sun-ray Monstrance (19th century)
**2 Altar Candlesticks (19th century)
**A Chalice (19th century)
**A Prie-dieu (19th century)
**A Stoup (19th century)
**2 Altars, 4 altar seatings, and 2 Church tabernacle, Tabernacles (1885)
**An Altar, 2 altar seatings, a Tabernacle, and 2 Statues (1885)
**3 Stained glass windows of people: Saint Francis de Sales, Saint Michael protecting a canon, and Saint John (1887)Ministry of Culture, Palissy

Facilities

Auriac has a primary school which also serves the communes of Garlède-Mondebat, Lalonquette et Miossens-Lanusse in an Educational Inter-communal Grouping.

See also

*Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

References

External links

Community of communes of Luys en Béarn website

Auriac on Géoportail
Institut géographique national, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website
''Auriac'' on the 1750 Cassini Map

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Communes of Pyrénées-Atlantiques