Arhansus ()ARHANTSUSI

Auñamendi Eusko Entziklopedia Pic d'Anie (Basque Auñamendi) is a mountain of the Pyrenees in France, located close to the Spanish border. It is high. The mountain boasts an almost perfect pyramidal shape and is surrounded by the spectacular karst landscape of. ''Larra'', i ...

is a

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in the

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department in the

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region of south-western

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. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Arhantsusiar'' Brigitte Jobbé-Duval, ''Dictionary of place names - Pyrénées-Atlantiques'', 2009, Archives and Culture, Euskaltzaindia - Academy of the Basque language
/ref> or ''Arhantsusitar''.

Geography

Arhansus is located in the former basque province of

Lower Navarre Lower Navarre ( eu, Nafarroa Beherea/Baxenabarre; Gascon/Bearnese: ''Navarra Baisha''; french: Basse-Navarre ; es, Baja Navarra) is a traditional region of the present-day French ''département'' of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. It corresponds to the ...

some 10 km south of Saint-Palais and 8 km north-east of Larceveau-Arros-Cibits. Access to the commune is solely by country roads with at least two country roads connecting the village to the D933 road from Larceveau-Arros-Cibrits to Uhart-Mixe which passes outside and parallel to the western border of the commune. The commune consists almost entirely of farmland with a few small patches of forest.Google Maps
/ref> The Bidouze river forms the western border of the commune flowing north with two small streams rising in the commune and joining it. One stream is the northern border of the commune.

Places and Hamlets

* Aguerrengoyhenko Borda (ruins) * Bidartia * Bordaberria * Carricondoa * Castellu Cahara or Gastelusare * Charcoa * Cuçuluteguia * Elgartia * Etchessaria * Eyhera * Eyheraberria * Goyhenetchea * Haramberria * Harispouria * Hirrundoya * Inchaurrague * Ithurbidia * Larrondoa * Lastapia * Mendionda * Olieta * Portasanse * Solaquia * Uligainia Géoportail

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Toponymy

The commune's name in

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is ''Arhantsusi'' (or ''Arhantsuse''

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 ...

, ''Dictionary Basque-French'', 1926 ). The name is based on the basque radical ''Arhan-'', ''Arran-'' from where ''Arhantz'' is derived but the etymology "where

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abounds"Ministry of Culture, Mérimée is uncertain. The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune. Sources: *Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan,
'' New Basque Toponymy''
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''New Basque Toponymy''
Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2006, p. 93 *

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''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 *Cassini: Cassini Map from 1750Cassini Map 1750 – Arhansus
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History

Heraldry

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

Inter-communality

Arhansus is part of seven inter-communal structures: * the

Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque The communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque ( eu, Euskal Hirigune Elkargoa), is the ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the cities of Bayonne and Biarritz. It is located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques depa ...

; * the AEP association of Ostabaret; * the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques; * the inter-communal association for the single purpose of Oztibarre Garbi; * the inter-communal association for the development and management of the slaughterhouse at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port; * the association for the operation of schools in Ostibarret; * the association to support Basque culture.

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 74 inhabitants.

Economy

Economic activity is mainly agricultural. the commune is part of the

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(AOC) zone of

Ossau-iraty Ossau-Iraty is an Occitan- Basque cheese made from sheep milk. Origin Ossau-Iraty or Esquirrou is produced in south-western France, in the Northern Basque Country and in Béarn. Its name reflects its geographical location, the Ossau Valley in B ...

Culture and Heritage

Civil Heritage

Several sites in Arhansus are registered as historical monuments: *The

Protohistoric Protohistory is a period between prehistory and history during which a culture or civilization has not yet developed writing, but other cultures have already noted the existence of those pre-literate groups in their own writings. For example, in ...

Camp at Castellu CaharaMinistry of Culture, Mérimée at an altitude of 361m *A second

Camp at Portasanse.Ministry of Culture, Mérimée *Houses and Farms (18th-19th century)

Religious Heritage

The Parish Church of Saint-Étienne (15th century) is registered as an historical monument.Ministry of Culture, Mérimée ;The Church File:Arhansus église (3).jpg, Stained Glass File:Arhansus église (2).jpg, Relief

Hilarri Hilarri (from Basque ''hil'' 'dead' and ''harri'' 'stone') is the name given to disk-shaped funerary steles that are typical of the Basque Country. These funerary steles present a disc-shaped head facing the rising sun on a trapezoidal sta ...
in Arhansus

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